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1 A Song of Ascents. {N}
'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up', let Israel now say;
 
2 'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up; but they have not prevailed against me.
 
3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
 
4 The LORD is righteous; He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.'
 
5 Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion.
 
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;
 
7 Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
 
8 Neither do they that go by say: 'The blessing of the LORD be upon you; {N}
we bless you in the name of the LORD.' {P}
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