2 Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not  prevailed over me.
         
                                
                        3 Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long  their furrows.
         
                                
                        4 Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the  wicked.
         
                                
                        5 Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.
         
                                
                        6 They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn  out withereth,
         
                                
                        7 That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom  of a binder of sheaves.
         
                                
                        8 And the passers by have not said, `The blessing of Jehovah  [is] on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!`