Commentary on Psalms - Volume 5

1“Often have they afflicted me from my youths” Say now let Israel:

2“Often have they afflicted me from my youth; “Yet they have not prevailed against me.

3“Upon my back ploughed have the ploughers; “They have made long their furrows.

4“Jehovah, who is righteous, hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.”

5Confounded and turned backward shall be all who hate Zion.

6They shall be as the grass of the housetops, Which before it cometh forth is withered:

7With which the mower hath not filled his hand, Nor his bosom he who gathereth handfuls.

8Nor have they said who pass by, “The blessing of Jehovah be upon you, “We bless you in the name of Jehovah.”