King James New American Standard Bible
  • 1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
  • 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet 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 all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
  • 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
  • 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
  • 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
  • 1 “Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,” Let Israel now say,
  • 2 “Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up; Yet they have not prevailed against me.
  • 3 “The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows.”
  • 4 The LORD is righteous; He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.
  • 5 May all who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned backward;
  • 6 Let them be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
  • 7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;
  • 8 Nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you; We bless you in the name of the LORD.”
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
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