¹A song of the sundial degree markings.

Many a time they have distressed me

Since my youth.

Do let Israel say,

²“Many a time they have distressed me

Since my youth.

Nevertheless, they have not prevailed over me.”

³The ploughmen have ploughed on my back;

They have made their furrows long.

⁴The Lord is righteous;

He has cut the cord of the wicked in pieces.

⁵They will be ashamed,

And they will be driven back

– All those who hate Zion.

⁶They will be like vegetation on roofs,

Which becomes dry before it is plucked up,

⁷Which does not fill the hand of the reaper

Or the bosom of the sheaf binder.

⁸For those passing through do not say,

“The blessing of the Lord to you;

We bless you in the name of the Lord.”