| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1A Song of Ascents. “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth,” Let Israel now say— | 1From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this: |
| 2“Many a time they have 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 on my back; They made their furrows long.” | 3My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. |
| 4The LORD is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. | 4But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. |
| 5Let all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back. | 5May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. |
| 6Let them be as 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 he who binds sheaves, his arms. | 7ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. |
| 8Neither let those who pass by them 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.” |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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