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

2 M any a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 T he plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.

4 J ehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 L et them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

6 L et them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

7 W herewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

8 N either do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.