“A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 129 contains 8 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.