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1 MANY a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: | |
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. | |
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. | |
4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. | |
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. | |
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: | |
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. | |
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. | |
