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| 1. | Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say. |
| 2. | Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me. |
| 3. | The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity. |
| 4. | The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners: |
| 5. | let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion. |
| 6. | Let them be as grass on the tops of houses: which withered before it be plucked up: |
| 7. | Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom. |
| 8. | And they that have passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord. |