129:7 which cannot fill the reaper’s hand,
or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
129:8 Those who pass by will not say, 1
“May you experience the Lord’s blessing!
We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord.”
[129:8] 1 tn The perfect verbal form is used for rhetorical effect; it describes an anticipated development as if it were already reality.
