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New Living Translation NLT
1 A Song of Ascents. "Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth," Let 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 they have 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 on my back; They made their furrows long."
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My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
4 The Lord is righteous; He has cut in pieces 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 all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.
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May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat.
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,
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May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,
7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.
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ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder.
8 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!"
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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.”