Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur,

may Yisroel now say;

2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur (youth);

yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 The choreshim (plowers) plowed upon my back;

they made long their furrows.

4 Hashem is tzaddik;

He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha'im.

5 Let them all be confounded

and turned back that hate Tziyon.*i.e, all anti-Semites

6 Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops,

which withereth before it groweth up;

7 With it the kotzer (reaper) filleth not his yad;

nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom.

8 Neither do they which go by say,

Birkat Hashem be upon you;

we bless you b'Shem Hashem.