1. MANY A time and much have they afflicted me from my youth up–let Israel now say–
2. Many a time and much 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 [uncompromisingly] righteous; He has cut asunder the thick cords by which the wicked [enslaved us].
5. Let them all be put to shame and turned backward who hate Zion.
6. Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,