詩篇 129

1 今イスラエルはいふべし彼等はしばしば我をわかきときより惱めたり

A song for pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young. Let everyone in Israel say:

2 かれらはしばしば我をわかきときより惱めたり されどわれに勝ことを得ざりき

Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young, but they never defeated me.

3 耕すものはわが背をたがへしてその畎をながくせり

They beat me on my back, leaving long furrows as if it had been ploughed by a farmer.

4 ヱホバは義し あしきものの繩をたちたまへり

But the Lord does what is right: he has cut me free from the ropes of the wicked.

5 シオンをにくむ者はみな恥をおびてしりぞかせらるべし

May everyone who hates Zion be driven back in humiliating defeat.

6 かれらは長たざるさきにかるる屋上の草のごとし

May they be like grass that grows on a roof that withers before it can be harvested,

7 これを刈るものはその手にみたず 之をつかぬるものはその束ふところに盈ざるなり

There's not enough even for a reaper to hold, not enough even for the binder to bind.

8 かたはらを過るものはヱホバの惠なんぢの上にあれといはず われらヱホバの名によりてなんぢらを祝すといはず

May passers-by not say to them, “The blessing of the Lord be on you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.”