Ψαλμοί 129

1 ᾠδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου εἰπάτω δὴ Ισραηλ

A song of degrees. They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)

2 πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησάν μοι

They haue often times afflicted me from my youth: but they could not preuaile against me.

3 ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου μου ἐτέκταινον οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί ἐμάκρυναν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν

The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.

4 κύριος δίκαιος συνέκοψεν αὐχένας ἁμαρτωλῶν

But the righteous Lord hath cut the cordes of the wicked.

5 αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ἀποστραφήτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω πάντες οἱ μισοῦντες Σιων

They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.

6 γενηθήτωσαν ὡς χόρτος δωμάτων ὃς πρὸ τοῦ ἐκσπασθῆναι ἐξηράνθη

They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.

7 οὗ οὐκ ἐπλήρωσεν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὁ θερίζων καὶ τὸν κόλπον αὐτοῦ ὁ τὰ δράγματα συλλέγων

Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:

8 καὶ οὐκ εἶπαν οἱ παράγοντες εὐλογία κυρίου ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς εὐλογήκαμεν ὑμᾶς ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου

Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.