• 1. &lt;A Song of Ascents.&gt;<br>
    Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
  • 2. many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
  • 3. The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
  • 4. Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
  • 5. Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
  • 6. Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
  • 7. with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
  • 8. Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh."