1. Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur, may Yisroel now say;
2. Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur (youth); yet they have not prevailed against me.
3. The choreshim (plowers) plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
4. Hashem is tzaddik; He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha'im.
5. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Tziyon [i.e, all anti-Semites].
6. Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up;
7. With it the kotzer (reaper) filleth not his yad; nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom.
8. Neither do they which go by say, Birkat Hashem be upon you; we bless you b'Shem Hashem.