Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 <<A Ma`alot Song.>> Many times have they afflicted me from my youth up. Let Yisra'el now say,
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A Song of the Ascents. Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say:
2 Many times have they afflicted me from my youth up, Yet they have not prevailed against me.
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Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
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Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.
4 The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
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Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All those who hate Tziyon.
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Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
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They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,
7 With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
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That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.
8 Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the name of the LORD."
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And the passers by have not said, `The blessing of Jehovah [is] on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'
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