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.