The Book of Psalms

[A Song of Ascents.] Many times they have afflicted me from my youth, let Israel now say;

they have afflicted me from my youth many times, yet they have not prevailed over me.

The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.

Jehovah [is] righteous; He severs the cords of the wicked.

Let them be ashamed and turned back, all those who hate Zion;

let them be like the grass [on] the rooftops, which dries up before it draws out;

with which the reaper does not fill his palm, nor the binder of sheaves his bosom.

And those who pass by have never said, The blessing of Jehovah [be] on you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah.