Psalms 129:1
A song of ascents.
What it says
Israel is invited to say that it has been greatly afflicted from its youth.
What it is doing
This verse opens the psalm by summoning collective memory of long suffering.
In context
1A song of ascents. 2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, 3The plowmen plowed over my back; 4The LORD is righteous; 5May all who hate Zion 6May they be like grass on the rooftops, 7unable to fill the hands of the reaper, 8May none who pass by say to them,