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| 1 A Song of the Ascents. | 
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|  Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say: | 
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| 2 Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me. | 
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| 3 Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows. | 
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| 4 Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked. | 
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| 5 Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion. | 
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| 6 They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth, | 
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| 7 That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves. | 
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| 8 And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah [is] on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!' | 
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