Song of Ascents.
1	“Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth,” Let Israel now say—
2	“Many a time they have afflicted 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 in pieces the cords of the wicked.
5	Let all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.
6	Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,
7	With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.
8	Neither let those who pass by them say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you; We bless you in the name of the LORD!”