In My Distress (120)

`Many times they have afflicted me from / my youth up.

Let `Israel_ / now~ say:

`many times they have afflicted me from / my youth up,

`yet_ they have not pre / vailed against me.

The `plowers plowed_ / on my back.

They `made their / furrows long.

The `LORD_ / is~ righteous.

`He has cut apart the cords_ / of the wicked.

(Ref)

`Let them be turned / back in shame,

`all those / who hate Zion.

Let `them be as the grass_ / on the housetops,

which `withers before / it grows up,

which `does not fill the / reapers hand,

`nor the arms_ of the binder / of~ sheaves.

`Neither do those who go by_ say, “The blessing of the LORD_ / be on you.

We `bless you in the name_ / of the LORD.”