• 0. A song of degrees.
  • 1. They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)
  • 2. They haue often times afflicted me fro my youth: but they could not preuaile against me.
  • 3. The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.
  • 4. But the righteous Lorde hath cut the cordes of the wicked.
  • 5. They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.
  • 6. They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.
  • 7. Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:
  • 8. Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.