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"Often since my youth they have attacked me,"
let Israel say.
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"Often since my youth they have attacked me,
yet they have not defeated me.
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The plowers plowed on my back;
they made their furrows long.
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Yahweh is righteous;
he has cut off the ropes of the wicked."
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May they all be put to shame and turned back,
those who hate Zion.
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May they be like the grass on the housetops
that withers before it grows up,
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that cannot fill the reaper's hand
or the chest of the one who binds bundles of grain together.
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May those who pass by not say,
"May the blessing of Yahweh be on you;
we bless you in the name of Yahweh."