Psalmorum 129

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

A Song of Ascents. 'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up', let Israel now say;

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

'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up; but 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.

The LORD is righteous; He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.'

5 Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

Let them be ashamed 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 afore it springeth 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 the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.'