Psalmorum 129

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

A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say:

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

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

3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

4 Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.

The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners.

5 Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

Let all that hate Sion be put to shame and turned back.

6 Fiant sicut fœnum tectorum, quod priusquam evellatur exaruit:

Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up.

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

Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the 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 have blessed you in the name of the Lord.