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1 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this:
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From youth, people have constantly attacked me— let Israel now repeat!—
2 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.
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from youth people have constantly attacked me— but they haven't beaten me!
3 My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
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They plowed my back like farmers; they made their furrows deep.
4 But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly.
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But the LORD is righteous— God cut me free from the ropes of the wicked!
5 May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat.
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Let everyone who hates Zion be ashamed, thoroughly frustrated.
6 May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,
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Let them be like grass on a roof that dies before it can be pulled up,
7 ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder.
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which won't fill the reaper's hand or fill the harvester's arms.
8 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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Let no one who passes by say to them: "May the LORD's blessing be on you! We bless you in the LORD's name!"
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