✧A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say, ✧2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me. ✧3The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows. ✧4Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. ✧5Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion. ✧6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up; ✧7Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom: ✧8Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.