King James Version KJV
Good News Translation GNT
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
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Israel, tell us how your enemies have persecuted you ever since you were young.
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
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"Ever since I was young, my enemies have persecuted me cruelly, but they have not overcome me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
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They cut deep wounds in my back and made it like a plowed field.
4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
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But the Lord, the righteous one, has freed me from slavery."
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
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May everyone who hates Zion be defeated and driven back.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
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May they all be like grass growing on the housetops, which dries up before it can grow;
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
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no one gathers it up or carries it away in bundles.
8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you 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."
The King James Version is in the public domain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.