GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New King James Version NKJV
1 "From the time I was young, people have attacked me..." (Israel should repeat this.)
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A Song of Ascents. "Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth," Let Israel now say--
2 "From the time I was young, people have attacked me, but they have never overpowered me.
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"Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth; Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 They have plowed my back [like farmers plow fields]. They made long slashes [like furrows]."
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The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long."
4 The LORD is righteous. He has cut me loose from the ropes that wicked people tied around me.
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The Lord is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
5 Put to shame all those who hate Zion. Force them to retreat.
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Let all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.
6 Make them be like grass on a roof, like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk.
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Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,
7 It will never fill the barns of those who harvest or the arms of those who gather bundles.
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With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.
8 Those who pass by will never say [to them], "May you be blessed by the LORD" or "We bless you in the name of the LORD."
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Neither let those who pass by them say, "The blessing of the Lord be upon you; We bless you in the name of the Lord!"