King James Version KJV
New Living Translation NLT
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
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From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
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From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
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My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
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But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
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May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
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May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
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ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder.
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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And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD ’s name.”
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