| English Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say— | 1A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: |
| 2“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. | 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. |
| 3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” | 3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. |
| 4The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. | 4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. |
| 5May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! | 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. |
| 6Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, | 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: |
| 7with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms, | 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth 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!” | 8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. |
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