1 ¶ Many 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 has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 ¶ All those that hate Zion shall all be confounded and turned back.

6 T hey shall be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

7 w ith which the reaper does not fill his hand nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.

8 N either did those who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.