1“Sore have they vexed me from youth” thus let Israel say
2“Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
3The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long.
4But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.”
5Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated.
6May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up;
7which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves,
8whereof no one says as they pass, “The blessing of God be upon you.” In the name of the Lord we bless you.