Psalms 129

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

canticum graduum saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea dicat nunc Israhel

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

saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea etenim non potuerunt mihi

3 The ploughers ploughed on my back. They made their furrows long.

supra dorsum meum fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

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

Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum

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

confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion

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

fiant sicut faenum tectorum quod priusquam evellatur exaruit

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

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

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

et non dixerunt qui praeteribant benedictio Domini super vos benediximus vobis in nomine Domini