| King James Bible | NET Bible |
| 1A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: | 1A song of ascents. "Since my youth they have often attacked me," let Israel say. |
| 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. | 2"Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me. |
| 3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. | 3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long. |
| 4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. | 4The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked." |
| 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. | 5May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back! |
| 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: | 6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up, |
| 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. | 7which cannot fill the reaper's hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain! |
| 8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. | 8Those who pass by will not say, "May you experience the LORD's blessing! We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the LORD." |
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