| King James Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: | 1From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: |
| 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. | 2From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. |
| 3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. | 3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. |
| 4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. | 4But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. |
| 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. | 5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. |
| 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: | 6May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, |
| 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. | 7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. |
| 8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. | 8And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD’s name.” |
| King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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