Psalms 129

1 A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—

今イスラエルはいふべし彼等はしばしば我をわかきときより惱めたり

2 many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

かれらはしばしば我をわかきときより惱めたり されどわれに勝ことを得ざりき

3 The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

耕すものはわが背をたがへしてその畎をながくせり

4 The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.

ヱホバは義し あしきものの繩をたちたまへり

5 May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

シオンをにくむ者はみな恥をおびてしりぞかせらるべし

6 May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

かれらは長たざるさきにかるる屋上の草のごとし

7 unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

これを刈るものはその手にみたず 之をつかぬるものはその束ふところに盈ざるなり

8 May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”

かたはらを過るものはヱホバの惠なんぢの上にあれといはず われらヱホバの名によりてなんぢらを祝すといはず