| New Living Translation | New Living Translation |
| 1From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: | 1From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: |
| 2From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. | 2From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. |
| 3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. | 3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. |
| 4But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. | 4But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. |
| 5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. | 5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. |
| 6May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, | 6May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, |
| 7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. | 7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. |
| 8And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD’s name.” | 8And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD’s name.” |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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