1. Since the time I was young,enemies have often attacked!Let everyone in Israel say:
2. “Since the time I was young,enemies have often attacked!But they have not defeated me,
3. though my back is like a fieldthat has just been ploughed.”
4. The Lord always does right,and he has set me freefrom the ropesof those cruel people.
5. I pray that all who hatethe city of Zionwill be made ashamedand forced to turn and run.
6. May they be like grasson the flat roof of a house,grass that dries upas soon as it sprouts.
7. Don't let them be like wheatgathered in bundles.