1 "Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth,"
Let Israel now say-
2 "Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth;

Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back;
They made their furrows long."

4 The LORD is righteous;
He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
5 Let all those who hate Zion

Be put to shame and turned back.
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,

7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.
8 Neither let those who pass by them say,

"The blessing of the LORD be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the LORD!"