Psalmorum 129

1 Canticum graduum. Sæpe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea, dicat nunc Israel.

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

2 Sæpe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea: etenim non potuerunt mihi.

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

3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores: prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

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

4 Dominus iustus concidit cervices peccatorum:

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

5 confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes, qui oderunt Sion.

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

6 Fiant sicut fœnum tectorum: quod priusquam evellatur, exaruit:

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

7 De quo non implevit manum suam qui metit, et sinum suum qui manipulos colligit.

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

8 Et non dixerunt qui præteribant: Benedictio Domini super vos: benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.

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