Psalms 129

1 “A song of the degrees.” Many a time have they assailed me from my youth, so should Israel say;

Canticum graduum. [Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea, dicat nunc Israël;

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

sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea: etenim non potuerunt mihi.

3 Upon my back have ploughmen ploughed; they have drawn long their furrows:

Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

4 [Yet] the Lord is righteous; he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.

5 May all be put to shame and turned backward that hate Zion;

Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

6 May they become like the grass of the roofs, which withereth before it is pulled up;

Fiant sicut fœnum tectorum, quod priusquam evellatur exaruit:

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

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

8 Nor do they who pass by say, The blessing of the Lord be with you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

Et non dixerunt qui præteribant: Benedictio Domini super vos. Benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.]