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Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
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Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.
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The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
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The LORD is righteous; he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
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All those that hate Zion shall all be confounded and turned back.
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They shall be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
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with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.
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Neither did those who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.