A Song of Ascents.

¹ Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,

² Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.

³ The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.

⁴ Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵ Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

⁷ Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom:

⁸ Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.