Psalmorum 129

1 canticum graduum saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea dicat nunc Israhel

A Song of the going up. Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

2 saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea etenim non potuerunt mihi

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

3 supra dorsum meum fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

4 Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum

The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.

5 confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion

Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.

6 fiant sicut faenum tectorum quod priusquam evellatur exaruit

Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

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

He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

8 et non dixerunt qui praeteribant benedictio Domini super vos benediximus vobis in nomine Domini

And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.