Psalms 129

1 A song of degrees. They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)

canticum graduum saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea dicat nunc Israhel

2 They haue often times afflicted me from my youth: but they could not preuaile against me.

saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea etenim non potuerunt mihi

3 The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.

supra dorsum meum fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

4 But the righteous Lord hath cut the cordes of the wicked.

Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum

5 They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.

confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion

6 They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.

fiant sicut faenum tectorum quod priusquam evellatur exaruit

7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:

de quo non implevit manum suam qui metit et sinum suum qui manipulos colligit

8 Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.

et non dixerunt qui praeteribant benedictio Domini super vos benediximus vobis in nomine Domini