- A song of degrees.
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- They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)
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- They haue often times afflicted me fro my youth: but they could not preuaile against me.
- 3
- The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.
- 4
- But the righteous Lorde hath cut the cordes of the wicked.
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- They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.
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- They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.
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- Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:
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- Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.
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