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

2 m any times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

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

4 Y ahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

5 L et them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

6 L et them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

7 w ith which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

8 N either do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”