1 A Song of degrees. 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 has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 All those that hate Zion shall all be confounded and turned back.

6 They shall be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.

8 Neither did those who go by say, The blessing of the LORD [be] upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.: