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1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. 3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. 4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
1'They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,' let Israel say; 2'they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me. 3Ploughmen have ploughed my back and made their furrows long. 4But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.' 5May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame. 6May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow; 7reapers cannot fill their hands with it, nor those who gather fill their arms. 8May those who pass by not say to them, 'The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.'