Psalmorum 129

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

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

2 Saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute 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 iustus concidet 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 foenum tectorum: quod priusquam evellatur, exaruit:

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

7 De quo non implebit 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 praeteribant: Benedictio Domini super vos: benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.

Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.