1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth,may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth:yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back:they made long their furrows.
4 The Lord is righteous:he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,which withereth afore it groweth up:
7 wherewith the mower filleth not his hand;nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by say,The blessing of the Lord be upon you:we bless you in the name of the Lord.