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