1 M any a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

2 m any a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 T he plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

4 T he Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 L et them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

6 L et them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

7 w herewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

8 N either do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.