Psalms 129

1 [A Song of Ascents.] Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Ingoma yemiqanso. Sebengihluphe kakhulu kusukela ebutsheni bami katsho njalo u-Israyeli,

2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

sebengihluphe kakhulu kusukela ebutsheni bami, kodwa kabangehlulanga.

3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

Abalimi bawulimile umhlane wami benza imifolo emide.

4 The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

Kodwa uThixo ulungile; ungikhulule ezintanjeni zababi.

5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

Akuthi bonke abayizondayo iZiyoni babuyiselwe emuva beyangekile.

6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

Sengathi bangaba njengotshani obukhula ephahleni obubuna bungakakhuli;

7 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

umvuni angeke agcwalisa isandla sakhe ngabo, loba lowo obuthayo agcwalise izingalo zakhe.

8 Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the name of the LORD."

Sengathi labo abadlulayo bangabokuthi, “Izibusiso zikaThixo mazibe kuwe; siyakubusisa ngegama likaThixo.”