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A song of ascents. Since my youth they have often attacked me-- let Israel say--
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“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say—
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Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not prevailed against me.
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“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
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Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
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The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.”
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The LORD is righteous; He has cut the ropes of the wicked.
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The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
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Let all who hate Zion be driven back in disgrace.
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May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!
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Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up
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Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
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and can't even fill the hands of the reaper or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.
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with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
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Then none who pass by will say," May the LORD's blessing be on you." We bless you in the name of Yahweh.
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nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”
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