- [A song of degrees.]
- 1
- Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: may Israel now say.
- 2
- Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: yet they haue not preuailed against mee.
- 3
- The plowers plowed vpon my backe: they made long their furrowes.
- 4
- The Lord is righteous: hee hath cut asunder the cordes of the wicked.
- 5
- Let them all be confounded and turned backe, that hate Zion.
- 6
- Let them bee as the grasse vpon the house tops: which withereth afore it groweth vp:
- 7
- Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand: nor hee that bindeth sheaues, his bosome.
- 8
- Neither doe they which goe by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you: wee blesse you in the Name of the Lord.
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