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Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion’s Enemies.
A Song of Ascents.
1Many times they have 2Apersecuted me from my Byouth up,”
CLet Israel now say,
1Many times they have 2persecuted me from my youth up;
Yet they have Anot prevailed against me.
“The plowers plowed upon my back;
They lengthened their furrows.”
The Lord Ais righteous;
He has cut in two the Bcords of the wicked.
 
May all who Ahate Zion
Be Bput to shame and turned backward;
Let them be like Agrass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it 1grows up;
With which the reaper does not fill his 1hand,
Or the binder of sheaves his Abosom;
Nor do those who pass by say,
“The Ablessing of the Lord be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the Lord.”
1 129:1 Lit Much 2 129:1 Lit showed hostility toward A 129:1 Ex 1:11; Judg 3:8; Ps 88:15 B 129:1 Is 47:12; Jer 2:2; 22:21; Ezek 16:22; Hos 2:15; 11:1 C 129:1 Ps 124:1 1 129:2 Lit Much 2 129:2 Lit showed hostility toward A 129:2 Jer 1:19; 15:20; 20:11; Matt 16:18; 2 Cor 4:8, 9 A 129:4 Ps 119:137 B 129:4 Ps 140:5 A 129:5 Mic 4:11 B 129:5 Ps 70:3; 71:13 A 129:6 2 Kin 19:26; Ps 37:2; Is 37:27 1 129:6 Lit draws out 1 129:7 Lit palm A 129:7 Ps 79:12 A 129:8 Ruth 2:4; Ps 118:26