^{1 Ref} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

^{2 Ref} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

^{3 Ref} The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

^{4 Ref} The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

^{5 Ref} Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

^{6 Ref} Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

^{7 Ref} Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

^{8 Ref} Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.