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.