| New Living Translation | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: | 1A Song of Ascents. "Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up," Let Israel now say, |
| 2From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. | 2"Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up; Yet they have not prevailed against me. |
| 3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. | 3"The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows." |
| 4But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. | 4The LORD is righteous; He has cut in two the cords of the wicked. |
| 5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. | 5May all who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned backward; |
| 6May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, | 6Let them be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up; |
| 7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. | 7With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Or the binder of sheaves his bosom; |
| 8And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD’s name.” | 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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