A Song of Ascents.

• ¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.
• Let Israel now say,

• ²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,
• yet they have not prevailed against me.

• ³The plowers plowed on my back.
• They made their furrows long.

• ⁴Yahweh is righteous.
• He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

• ⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
• all those who hate Zion.

• ⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
• which withers before it grows up;

• ⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,
• nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

• ⁸Neither do those who go by say,
• “The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
• We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”