- 1Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
- 2many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- 3The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
- 4The Lord is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
- 5Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
- 6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
- 7with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
- 8Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the Lord be on you. We bless you in the Lord’s name.”