Psalm 129 v1-4 of 8 "They have oppressed me from my youth" Tune: Rockingham/Communion. Sing Psalms

Psalm 129 v1-4 of 8 to the tune Rockingham/Communion
"They have oppressed me from my youth; Yet I have not been overthrown."
Falkirk Free Church
images: some of Tissot's images from the life of Samson (Judges 13-17)
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as one-to-one correspondences.

PSALM 129 L.M.

1 They have oppressed me from my youth—
Let Israèl now make this known—
2 They have oppressed me from my youth;
Yet I have not been overthrown.

3 They drew their ploughs across my back;
The ploughmen made their furrows long.
4 The LORD is just; he cut me free
From cords of those who did me wrong.

5 May all who hate Jerusalem
Be put to shame and turned away.
6 May they, like grass upon the roof,
Not grow, but wither and decay.

7 Such grass can fill no reaper’s hands;
The gatherer has no reward.
8 May passers-by not say to them:
“We wish you blessing from the LORD!”