1 »Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,« Let Israel now say:2 »Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up. Yet they have not prevailed against me.3 »The plowers plowed upon my back. They lengthened their furrows.«4 »Jehovah is righteous. He has cut to pieces the cords of the wicked.5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward.6 Let them be like grass upon the housetops. It withers before it grows up.7 The reaper does not fill his hand with it, or the binder of sheaves his bosom.8 Nor do those who pass by say: »The blessing of Jehovah be upon you! We bless you in the name of Jehovah.«