The security of Israel. (A Song of degrees.)

¹⁾Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:;

²⁾Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth:; yet they have not prevailed against me.

³⁾The plowersploughers plowedploughed upon my back:; they made long their furrows.

⁴⁾The LORDLord is righteous:; he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵⁾Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

⁶⁾Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:.

⁷⁾Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

⁸⁾Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORDLord be upon you:; we bless you in the name of the LORDLord.