Psalms

¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, ²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. ³The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. ⁴Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. ⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. ⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up; ⁷with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. ⁸Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh." A Song of Ascents.