New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 "Often have they attacked me from my youth" —let Israel now say—
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<A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
2 "often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
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Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long."
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The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
4 The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
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The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward.
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Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
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Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
7 with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,
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He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
8 while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!"
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And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.
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