Song of Victory over Zion’s Enemies
Song of Ascents.
1 “Many a time they haveafflicted me frommy youth,”
# Let Israel now say—
2 “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth;
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back;
They made their furrows long.”
4 TheLordisrighteous;
He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
5 Let all those who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned back.
6 Let them be as thegrassonthe housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,
7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.
8 Neither let those who pass by them say,
# “The blessing of theLordbeupon you;
We bless you in the name of theLord!”