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A Song of degrees. |
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1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: |
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2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: 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 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. |
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5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. |
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6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: |
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7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
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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. |
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