1A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:⇆ compare2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.⇆ compare3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.⇆ compare4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.⇆ compare5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.⇆ compare6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up:⇆ compare7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.⇆ compare8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.⇆ compare