Psalmorum 129

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

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

2 sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute 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 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 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 house-tops, 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.