1“A song of the degrees.” Many a time have they assailed me from my youth, so should Israel say;

2Many a time have they assailed me from my youth: yet have they not prevailed against me.

3Upon my back have ploughmen ploughed; they have drawn long their furrows:

4[Yet] the Lord is righteous; he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5May all be put to shame and turned backward that hate Zion;

6May they become like the grass of the roofs, which withereth before it is pulled up;

7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor his arm he that bindeth sheaves.

8Nor do they who pass by say, The blessing of the Lord be with you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.