Psalms

A Song of Ascents.

¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.

Let Israel now say:

²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,

yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed on my back.

They made their furrows long.

⁴The LORD is righteous.

He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward,

all those who hate Zion.

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops,

which withers before it grows up,

⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,

nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

⁸Neither do those who go by say,

“The blessing of the LORD be on you.

We bless you in the LORD’s name.”