1A song <07892> of ascents <04609>. “Since my youth <05271> they have often <07227> attacked <06887> me,” let Israel <03478> say <0559>.
2“Since my youth <05271> they have often <07227> attacked <06887> me, but <01571> they have not <03808> defeated <03201> me.
3The plowers <02790> plowed <02790> my back <01354>; they made their furrows <04618> long <0748>.
4The Lord <03068> is just <06662>; he cut <07112> the ropes <05688> of the wicked <07563>.”
5May all <03605> who hate <08130> Zion <06726> be humiliated <0954> and turned <05472> back <0268>!
6May they be <01961> like the grass <02682> on the rooftops <01406> which withers <03001> before <06927> one can even pull <08025> it up <08025>,
7which cannot <03808> fill <04390> the reaper’s <07114> hand <03709>, or the lap <02683> of the one who gathers the grain <06014>!
8Those who pass by <05674> will not <03808> say <0559>, “May you experience the Lord’s <03068> blessing <01293>! We pronounce <01288> a blessing <01288> on you in the name <08034> of the Lord <03068>.”