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.