1. 1 A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2. 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3. 3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4. 4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5. 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6. 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7. 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8. 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.