They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth
A Song of Ascents.
129"Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up," Let Israel now say,
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"Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up; Yet they have not prevailed against me.
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"The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows."
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The Lord is righteous; He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.
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May all who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned backward;
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Let them be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
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With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;
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Nor do those who pass by say, "The blessing of the Lord be upon you; We bless you in the name of the Lord."