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