[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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