1 "Often have they attacked me from my youth" --let Israel now say- -

2 "often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long."

4 The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward.

6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,

7 with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,

8 while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!"