A Song of Ascents.

1“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,”
         Let Israel now say,

2“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up;
         Yet they have not prevailed against me.

3“The plowers plowed upon my back;
         They lengthened their furrows.”

4The LORD is righteous;
         He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

5May all who hate Zion
         Be put to shame and turned backward;

6Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
         Which withers before it grows up;

7With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
         Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

8Nor do those who pass by say,
         “The blessing of the LORD be upon you;
         We bless you in the name of the LORD.”

NASB ©1995