The Holy Bible – Knox Translation
The Book of Psalms
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Psalm 128
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(A song of ascents.)
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Sore have they beset me even from my youth (let this be Israel’s boast);
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sore have they beset me even from my youth, but never once outmatched me.
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I bent my back to the oppressor, and long was the furrow ere the plough turned;
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but the Lord proved faithful, and cut the bonds of tyranny asunder.
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Let them be dismayed and routed, all these enemies of Sion.
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Let them be like the stalks on a house-top, that wither there unharvested;
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never will they be grasped in the reaper’s hand, or fill the binder’s bosom,
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no passer-by will say, The Lord’s blessing on you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.✻
