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[1] Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

[2] many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

[3] The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

[4] Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

[5] Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

[6] Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

[7] with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

[8] Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”

Psalms — Chapters