Psalmorum 129

1 Canticum graduum. Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea, dicat nunc Israël;

A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,

2 sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea: etenim non potuerunt mihi.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: 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 justus concidit cervices peccatorum.

Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they 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.

Wherewith the reaper 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 that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.