1 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 Yahweh’s name."

1 Grádicsok éneke.

2 Sokat szorongattak engem ifjúságom óta, még sem bírtak velem.

3 Szántók szántottak hátamon, hosszúra nyujtották barázdáikat.

4 Igaz az Úr! Elszaggatja a gonoszok kötelét.

5 Megszégyenülnek és hátraszorulnak mindazok, a kik gyûlölik a Siont.

6 Olyanok lesznek, mint a háztetõn a fû, a mely kiszárad, mielõtt letépnék.

7 A melyet sem arató nem szed markába, sem kévekötõ az ölébe.

8 Az átutazók se mondják: Az Úr áldása rátok! Áldunk benneteket az Úrnak nevében!