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1 "Often have they attacked me from my youth" —let Israel now say—
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From youth, people have constantly attacked me— let Israel now repeat!—
2 "often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
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from youth people have constantly attacked me— but they haven't beaten me!
3 The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long."
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They plowed my back like farmers; they made their furrows deep.
4 The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
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But the LORD is righteous— God cut me free from the ropes of the wicked!
5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward.
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Let everyone who hates Zion be ashamed, thoroughly frustrated.
6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
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Let them be like grass on a roof that dies before it can be pulled up,
7 with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,
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which won't fill the reaper's hand or fill the harvester's arms.
8 while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!"
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Let no one who passes by say to them: "May the LORD's blessing be on you! We bless you in the LORD's name!"
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