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| 1 A Song of the Ascents. |
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| Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say: |
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| 2 Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me. |
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| 3 Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows. |
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| 4 Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked. |
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| 5 Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion. |
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| 6 They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth, |
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| 7 That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves. |
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| 8 And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah [is] on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'
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