1 "Many a time they have attacked me since my youth"—let Israel say it now—
2 "many a time they have attacked me since my youth, yet they have not overcome me.
3 Plowmen plowed across my back; they drew their furrows long."
4 The LORD is righteous; he has cut the ropes of the wicked in two.
5 May all who hate Zion be shamed and driven back.
6 May they be like grass on the roofs, which dries up before it can shoot up,
7 which does not fill the reaper's hand or the lap of the one who binds sheaves,
8 and those passing by do not say, "The LORD's blessing be on you! We bless you in the LORD's name!"