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- <A Song of the going up.>
Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
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- Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.
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- The ploughmen were ploughing on my back;
long were the wounds they made.
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- The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
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- Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
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- Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
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- He who gets in the grain has no use for it;
and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
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- And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you;
we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.
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