The Preacher's Bible

A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:

²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

⁴Jehovah is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

⁸Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Jehovah be on you. We bless you in Jehovah’s name.”