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| [1] Israel may now say: they haue troubled me often from my youth vp |
[1]A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: |
| [2]They haue troubled me often from my youth vp: but they haue not preuayled against me |
[2]Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. |
| [3]The plowemen plowed vpon my backe: they made long forrowes |
[3]The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. |
| [4]But God who is iust: hath cut a peeces the snares of the vngodly |
[4]The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. |
| [5]All they that beare an euyll wyll to Sion: shalbe confounded, and be made to turne backe from it |
[5]Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. |
| [6]They shall be as the grasse growing vpon the house toppes: whiche withereth afore that it be shot foorth [to his growth. |
[6]Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up: |
| [7]Whereof the mower fylleth not his hande: neither he that byndeth vp the sheaues his armes full |
[7]With which the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom. |
| [8]And they which go by, say not so much as the blessing of God be vpon you: we blesse you in the name of God |
[8]Neither do they who go by, say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. |