| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD’s name.” |
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