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 ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.

⁴⁾The Lord 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 Lord be upon you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.