They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth
A Song of aAscents.
“Greatly have they bafflicted me cfrom my youth”—
dlet Israel now say—
2 “Greatly have they aafflicted me bfrom my youth,
cyet they have not prevailed against me.
3 aThe plowers plowed bupon my back;
they made long their furrows.”
4 The Lord is righteous;
he has cut athe cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion
be aput to shame and turned backward!
6 Let them be like athe grass on the housetops,
which bwithers 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,
a“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We bbless you in the name of the Lord!”