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A Song of Ascents. "Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth," Let Israel now say--
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"Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth; Yet they have not prevailed against me.
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The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long."
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The Lord is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
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Let all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.
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Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,
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With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.