< 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 YHWH 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 YHWH be on you. We bless you in the name of YHWH."
Sengathi labo abadlulayo bangabokuthi, “Izibusiso zikaThixo mazibe kuwe; siyakubusisa ngegama likaThixo.”