## Psalms Chapter 129

###### Psalms 129:1
[Psalms 129:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:1)

שִׁ֗יר הַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹת רַ֭בַּת צְרָר֣וּנִי מִנְּעוּרַ֑י יֹאמַר־נָ֝֗א יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A Ma῾alot Poem. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Yisra᾽el now say:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
A song of ascents. "Many [peoples] have afflicted me from my youth," Israel will say [in the future].


###### Psalms 129:2
[Psalms 129:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:2)

רַ֭בַּת צְרָר֣וּנִי מִנְּעוּרָ֑י גַּ֝֗ם לֹא־יָ֥כְלוּ לִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Many have afflicted me from my youth, but none have prevailed against me.


###### Psalms 129:3
[Psalms 129:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:3)

עַל־גַּ֭בִּי חָרְשׁ֣וּ חֹרְשִׁ֑ים הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ (למענותם) [לְמַעֲנִיתָֽם]׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The ploughers ploughed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Upon my back the plowers have plowed; they have lengthened their furrow.


###### Psalms 129:4
[Psalms 129:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:4)

יְהֹוָ֥ה צַדִּ֑יק קִ֝צֵּ֗ץ עֲב֣וֹת רְשָׁעִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The Lord is righteous: he has cut asunder the cord of the wicked.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[But] the L rd is righteous; He has cut the bonds of the wicked ones.


###### Psalms 129:5
[Psalms 129:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:5)

יֵ֭בֹשׁוּ וְיִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֑וֹר כֹּ֝֗ל שֹׂנְאֵ֥י צִיּֽוֹן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let them be confounded and turned back, all who hate Żiyyon.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They will be ashamed, and they will recoil, all the foes of Zion.


###### Psalms 129:6
[Psalms 129:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:6)

יִ֭הְיוּ כַּחֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֑וֹת שֶׁקַּדְמַ֖ת שָׁלַ֣ף יָבֵֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let them be like the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it is plucked:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They will be like the grass upon the rooftops, which withers before it is plucked,


###### Psalms 129:7
[Psalms 129:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:7)

שֶׁלֹּ֤א מִלֵּ֖א כַפּ֥וֹ קוֹצֵ֗ר וְחִצְנ֥וֹ מְעַמֵּֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
wherewith the mower fills not his hand; nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Which does not fill the hand of the reaper, nor the arm of the gatherer.


###### Psalms 129:8
[Psalms 129:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/129:8)

וְלֹ֤א אָמְר֨וּ**׀** הָעֹבְרִ֗ים בִּרְכַּֽת־יְהֹוָ֥ה אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם בֵּרַ֥כְנוּ אֶ֝תְכֶ֗ם בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהֹוָֽה׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Nor do they who go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Whereof the passersby will not say [the customary]: "The blessing of the L rd upon you; we have blessed you in the name of the L rd."