M<\/span>any a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.<\/span> <\/p>\n