Psalmorum 129

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

A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

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

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores: prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

4 Dominus iustus concidit cervices peccatorum:

The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes, qui oderunt Sion.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

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

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up:

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

With which the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

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

Neither do they who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.