Psalmorum 129

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

A song of ascents. “Sore have they vexed me from youth” thus let Israel say

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

“Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores: prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

“The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long.

4 Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum:

But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.”

5 confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes, qui oderunt Sion.

Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated.

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

May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up;

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

which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves

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

whereof no one says as they pass, “The blessing of God be upon you.” In the name of the Lord we bless you.