Psalmorum 129

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

A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say:

2 saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea etenim non potuerunt mihi

Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me.

3 supra dorsum meum fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

Plowers have plowed over my back, They have made their furrows long.

4 Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum

YHWH [is] righteous, He has cut apart cords of the wicked.

5 confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion

All hating Zion [are] confounded and turn backward.

6 fiant sicut faenum tectorum quod priusquam evellatur exaruit

They are as grass of the roofs, That withers before it was drawn out,

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

That has not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

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

And the passers by have not said, “The blessing of YHWH [is] on you, We blessed you in the Name of YHWH!”