- Oft they, now Israel may say,
- me from my youth assailed:
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- 2 Oft they assailed me from my youth
- yet never they prevailed.
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- 3 Upon my back the plowers plowed,
- and furrows long did cast:
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- 4 The righteous Lord hath cut the cords
- of wicked foes at last.
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- 5 They that hate me shall be ashamed,
- and turned back also:
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- 6 And made as grass upon the house,
- which withereth ere it grow.
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- 7 Whereof the mower cannot find
- enough to fill his hand:
- Nor he can fill his lap, that goeth
- to glean upon the land.
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- 8 Nor passersby pray God on them
- to let his blessing fall:
- Nor say we bless you in the name
- of God the Lord of all.
