| Verse | |
| 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 plowers plowed 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. |
| Verse | |
| 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 plowers plowed 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. |