| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say— | 1From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: |
| 2“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. | 2From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. |
| 3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” | 3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. |
| 4The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. | 4But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. |
| 5May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! | 5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. |
| 6Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, | 6May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, |
| 7with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms, | 7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. |
| 8nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!” | 8And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD’s name.” |
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