Many a time have they warred against me from my youth,

Let Israel now say:

2 Many a time have they warred against me from my youth:

And yet they prevailed not against me.

3 The sinners wrought upon my back:

They prolonged their iniquity.

4 The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners.

5 Let all that hate Zion

Be put to shame and turned back.

6 Let them be as the grass of the housetops,

Which withers before it is plucked up.

7 Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand,

Nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.

8 Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you:

We have blessed you in the name of the Lord.