1: "They've kicked me around ever since I was young"--this is how Israel tells it--
2: "They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down.
3: Their plowmen plowed long furrows up and down my back;
4: Then GOD ripped the harnesses of the evil plowmen to shreds."
5: Oh, let all those who hate Zion grovel in humiliation;
6: Let them be like grass in shallow ground that withers before the harvest,
7: Before the farmhands can gather it in, the harvesters get in the crop,
8: Before the neighbors have a chance to call out, "Congratulations on your wonderful crop! We bless you in GOD's name!"