1. "Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up," Let Israel now say,
2. "Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up; Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3. "The plowers plowed upon my back; They lengthened their furrows."
4. The Lord is righteous; He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.
5. May all who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned backward;