Psalmorum 129

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

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 fabricabantur 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 faenum tectorum quod priusquam evellatur exaruit

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

7 de quo non implevit 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.