Psalms 129

1 A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

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

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

sebengihluphe kakhulu kusukela ebutsheni bami, kodwa kabangehlulanga.

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

Abalimi bawulimile umhlane wami benza imifolo emide.

4 The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Kodwa uThixo ulungile; ungikhulule ezintanjeni zababi.

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

Akuthi bonke abayizondayo iZiyoni babuyiselwe emuva beyangekile.

6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:

Sengathi bangaba njengotshani obukhula ephahleni obubuna bungakakhuli;

7 With which the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom.

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

8 Neither do they who go by, say, The blessing of the LORD [be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

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