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- 1 A Song of Ascents. 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 The LORD 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 the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”