1	“Often have they attacked me from my youth” — let Israel now say —
2	“often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
3	The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.”
4	The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
5	May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward.
6	Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
7	with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,
8	while those who pass by do not say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”