^{1 Ref} > Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

^{2 Ref} Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, Yet they have not prevailed against me.

^{3 Ref} The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

^{4 Ref} Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

^{5 Ref} Let them be disappointed and turned backward, All those who hate Zion.

^{6 Ref} Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;

^{7 Ref} With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

^{8 Ref} Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh."