Opening the chapter…
Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young. Let everyone in Israel say:
Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young, but they never defeated me.
They beat me on my back, leaving long furrows as if it had been plowed by a farmer.
But the Lord does what is right: he has cut me free from the ropes of the wicked.
May everyone who hates Zion be driven back in humiliating defeat.
May they be like grass that grows on a roof that withers before it can be harvested,
There's not enough even for a reaper to hold, not enough even for the binder to bind.
May passers-by not say to them, “The blessing of the Lord be on you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.”
Source
Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (engfbv). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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