A Song of Ascents.

129 “Greatly[a] have they afflicted me from my youth”—
let Israel now say—
2 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back;
they made long their furrows.” (Psalm 129:1-3, ESV)

Overcomers suffer affliction throughout their lives. They suffer from all sides, the evil minions of Satan and the foolish believers in Christ who do not obey him. Both groups alike malign, castigate, and black list the overcomers. Their lives are, as it were, an open wound. God likens them to fields which have been plowed with deep furrows. Although they are plowed deeply, no one ever eats their fruit, the fruit of righteousness. And even though they are discarded and discouraged their tormentors have not prevailed over them, have not “overcome” them. This is why God calls them the “overcomers,” They suffer through all of life’s adversities; they discern good and evil; they know that evil currently rules and prevails over all the world. But evil shall not prevail over them. God is righteous, and they have set their sights upon attaining to that same righteousness.

4 The Lord is righteous;
he has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion
be put to shame and turned backward!
6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,
7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
8 nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We bless you in the name of the Lord!” (Psalm 1294-8, ESV)

God is about to cut the cords with which the wicked currently bind us. In that day shame will descend upon those who hate the righteous and their eternal city. Then shall they see their lying plans come to naught as those they persecuted begin to rule them with a rod of iron… God’s Law.

And this until they learn to say, “We bless you in the Name of the LORD!”