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| 1 A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth--oh let Israel 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 ploughers ploughed 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 ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion; | 
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| 6 Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked 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 the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah! | 
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