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“Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth,” * let Israel now say;

“Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth, * but they have not prevailed against me.”

The plowmen plowed upon my back * and made their furrows long.

The, the Righteous One, * has cut the cords of the wicked.

Let them be put to shame and thrown back, * all those who are enemies of Zion.

Let them be like grass upon the housetops, * which withers before it can be plucked;

Which does not fill the hand of the reaper, * nor the bosom of him who binds the sheaves;

So that those who go by say not so much as, “The prosper you. * We wish you well in the Name of the .”

Out of the depths have I called to you, O ; , hear my voice; * let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication.

If you,, were to note what is done amiss, * O, who could stand?

For there is forgiveness with you; * therefore you shall be feared.