Verse 1
A song of ascents.“Since my youth they have often attacked me,” let Israel say.
Verse 2
“Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.
Verse 3
The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.
Verse 4
The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.”
Verse 5
May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back!
Verse 6
May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,
Verse 7
which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
Verse 8
Those who pass by will not say,“May you experience the LORD’s blessing! We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the LORD.