1(Shir HaMa'alot) 1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur,
may Yisroel now say;

2Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur (youth);
yet they have not prevailed against me.

3The choreshim (plowers) plowed upon my back;
they made long their furrows.

4Hashem is tzaddik;
He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha'im.

5Let them all be confounded
and turned back that hate Tziyon. ¹⁶⁴

6Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops,
which withereth before it groweth up;

7With it the kotzer (reaper) filleth not his yad;
nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom.

8Neither do they which go by say,
Birkat Hashem be upon you;
we bless you b'Shem Hashem.