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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 “They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,” let Israel say;
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A Song of the Ascents. Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say:
2 “they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.
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Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me.
3 Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.
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Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.
4 But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.”
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Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
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Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.
6 May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;
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They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,
7 a reaper cannot fill his hands with it, nor one who gathers fill his arms.
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That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.
8 May those who pass by not say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
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And the passers by have not said, `The blessing of Jehovah [is] on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'
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