A song of ascents
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📚✭✭“From my youth many times they have afflicted me”,
may Israel now say,
2 📚✭“From my youth many times
they have afflicted me;
yet they have not prevailed
against me.
3 📚✭The plowmen plowed
on my back;
they made their furrows long”.
4 📚✭The LORD is righteous.
He has cut in two the cords of
the wicked.
5 📚✭Let all those who hate Zion
be put to shame and
turned back.
6 📚✭Let them be like the grass
on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,
7 📚With which the reaper
does not fill his hand,
or he who binds sheaves,
his arms.
8 📚✭And may those who go
by not say,
“The blessing of the LORD
be on you.
We bless you in the name
of the LORD”.