1. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth--oh let Israel say--
2. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.
3. The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
4. Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5. Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion;
6. Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,