Psalms 129

1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, katsho-ke uIsrayeli,

2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, kanti kabangehlulanga.

3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Abalimi balima emhlana wami, bayenza yaba mide imifolo yabo.

4 Yhwh is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

INkosi ilungile, iqumile intambo zababi.

5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

Kabayangeke babuyiselwe emuva bonke abazonda iZiyoni.

6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Kababe njengotshani ephahleni, obubuna bungakakhuli,

7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

ovunayo angagcwalisi ngabo isandla sakhe, lalowo obopha izithungo isifuba sakhe.

8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of Yhwh be upon you: we bless you in the name of Yhwh.

Labadlulayo bangatsho ukuthi: Isibusiso seNkosi kasibe phezu kwenu; siyalibusisa ebizweni leNkosi.