| 1: Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may
Israel now say: |
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| 2: Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they
have not prevailed against me. |
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| 3:
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
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| 4: The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
wicked. |
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| 5: Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
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| 6: Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth
afore it groweth up: |
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| 7: Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
sheaves his bosom. |
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| 8: Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be
upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. |
