New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this:
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A Song of the Ascents. Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say:
2 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.
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Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me.
3 My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
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Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.
4 But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly.
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Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat.
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Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.
6 May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,
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They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,
7 ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder.
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That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.
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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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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