Psalmorum 129

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

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

2 saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute 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 fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

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

4 Dominus iustus concidet 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 faenum 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 praeteribant 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.