Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion’s Enemies.

A Song of Ascents.

1 “Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,”
          Let Israel now say,

2 “Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up;
          Yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 “The plowers plowed upon my back;
          They lengthened their furrows.”

4 The LORD is righteous;
          He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

5 May all who hate Zion
          Be put to shame and turned backward;

6 Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
          Which withers before it grows up;

7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
          Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

8 Nor do those who pass by say,
          “The blessing of the LORD be upon you;
          We bless you in the name of the LORD.”