• 1. {A Song of degrees.}<br>
    Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth -- oh let Israel say --
  • 2. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.
  • 3. The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
  • 4. Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
  • 5. Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion;
  • 6. Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,
  • 7. Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom;
  • 8. Neither do the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah!