1 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth, let Israel now say:2 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made their furrows long.4 Jehovah is righteous; He has cut off the cords of the wicked.5 Let all those who hate Zion be put to shame and driven back.6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which is dried up before it shoots forth,7 from which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.8 Neither let those who pass by them say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah.