The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
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Israel, tell us how your enemies have persecuted you ever since you were young.
2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.
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"Ever since I was young, my enemies have persecuted me cruelly, but they have not overcome me.
3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
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They cut deep wounds in my back and made it like a plowed field.
4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
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But the Lord, the righteous one, has freed me from slavery."
5 Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
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May everyone who hates Zion be defeated and driven back.
6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
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May they all be like grass growing on the housetops, which dries up before it can grow;
7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
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no one gathers it up or carries it away in bundles.
8 And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.
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No one who passes by will say, "May the Lord bless you! We bless you in the name of the Lord."
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.