“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”—

let Israel now say—

2  “Greatly 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 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,

which withers before it grows up,

7  with which the reaper does not fill his hand

nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

8  nor do those who pass by say,

“The blessing of the LORD be upon you!

We bless you in the name of the LORD!”