1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth , may Israel now say : 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth : yet they have not prevailed against me. 3The plowers plowed upon my back : they made long their furrows . 4The LORD is righteous : he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked .
The Resilience of God's People
5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion . 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops , which withereth afore it groweth up : 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand ; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom . 8Neither do they which go by say , The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD .