The Bible in Basic English BBE
Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB
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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29 (Shir HaMa’alot) Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne’ur, may Yisroel now say;
2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.
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Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne’ur (youth); yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
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The choreshim (plowers) plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
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Hashem is tzaddik; He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha’im.
5 Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
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Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Tziyon [i.e, all anti-Semites].
6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
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Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up;
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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With it the kotzer (reaper) filleth not his yad; nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom.
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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Neither do they which go by say, Birkat Hashem be upon you; we bless you b’Shem Hashem.