1A Song of Ascents. “Greatly[1] have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say— (出1:14; 士3:8; 士3:14; 士4:3; 士6:2; 士10:8; 诗120:1; 诗124:1; 赛47:12; 耶2:2; 耶22:21; 何2:15)2“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. (诗129:1; 林后4:8)3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” (赛50:6; 赛51:23; 弥3:12)4The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. (诗2:3)5May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! (诗35:4)6Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, (王下19:26; 伯8:12; 诗37:2; 赛37:27)7with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,8nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!” (得2:4; 诗118:26)