Psalms 129

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

Kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, katsho-ke uIsrayeli,

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

kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, kanti kabangehlulanga.

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

Abalimi balima emhlana wami, bayenza yaba mide imifolo yabo.

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

INkosi ilungile, iqumile intambo zababi.

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

Kabayangeke babuyiselwe emuva bonke abazonda iZiyoni.

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

Kababe njengotshani ephahleni, obubuna bungakakhuli,

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

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

8 Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”

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