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v1
“Too often ^[Or “Greatly”] they have attacked me from my youth.” Let Israel say,
v2
“Too often ^[Or “Greatly”] they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
v3
On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrows ^[According to the reading tradition (Qere)] long.”
v4
Yahweh is righteous. He has cut the ropes ^[That is, the yoke and tackle on a beast of burden] of the wicked.
v5
Let all be put to shame and repulsed who hate Zion.
v6
Let them be like grass on the housetops, that withers before it grows up,
v7
with which a reaper cannot fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms, ^[Literally “bosom”]
v8
so that passersby do not say, “The blessing of Yahweh be upon you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”