Song of Victory over Zion’s Enemies
A Song of Ascents.
1 “Many a time they have afflicted[a] me from my youth,”
Let Israel now say —
A Song of Ascents.
1 “Many a time they have afflicted[a] me from my youth,”
Let Israel now say —
2 “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth;
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back;
They made their furrows long.”
They made their furrows long.”
4 The Lord is righteous;
He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
5 Let all those who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned back.
Be put to shame and turned back.
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,
Which withers before it grows up,
7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor he who binds sheaves, his [b]arms.
Nor he who binds sheaves, his [b]arms.
8 Neither let those who pass by them say,
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the Lord!”
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the Lord!”