1 - A Song of Ascents. 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.