Psalms 129 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.

"They have worn me down since I was young" — let Israel say it —

"They have worn me down since I was young, but they have never defeated me."

They plowed furrows across my back; they cut their long, deep wounds into me.

But Yahweh is just — he cut the ropes of the oppressors loose.

Let everyone who hates Zion be driven back in disgrace.

Let them be like grass on a rooftop that dries out before it can even be pulled up —

no harvester ever fills a hand with it, no one gathers an armful of it —

and no one passing by will ever say, "Yahweh's favor be on you! We speak good over you in the name of Yahweh!"