The snares of the wicked
							
																								
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									A song of ascents. “Often since my youth they have attacked me,” let Israel say.
								
							 
																								
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									“Often since my youth they have attacked me, yet they have not defeated me.
								
							 
																								
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									The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.
								
							 
																								
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									Yahweh is righteous; he has cut the ropes of the wicked.”
								
							 
																								
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									May they all be put to shame and turned back, those who hate Zion.
								
							 
																								
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									May they be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
								
							 
																								
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									that cannot fill the reaper’s hand or the chest of the one who binds sheaves.
								
							 
																								
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									May those who pass by not say, “May the blessing of Yahweh be on you; we bless you in the name of Yahweh.”
								
							 
																						
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