| NET Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1A song of ascents. "Since my youth they have often attacked me," let Israel say. | 1“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say— |
| 2"Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me. | 2“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. |
| 3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long. | 3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” |
| 4The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked." | 4The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. |
| 5May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back! | 5May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! |
| 6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up, | 6Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, |
| 7which cannot fill the reaper's hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain! | 7with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms, |
| 8Those who pass by will not say, "May you experience the LORD's blessing! We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the LORD." | 8nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!” |
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