¹ A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, let Israel now say; ² Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: 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 be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion. ⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: ⁷ Wherewith the reaper 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.