< Amahubo 129 >

1 Kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, katsho-ke uIsrayeli,
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, kanti kabangehlulanga.
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 Abalimi balima emhlana wami, bayenza yaba mide imifolo yabo.
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 INkosi ilungile, iqumile intambo zababi.
YHWH is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Kabayangeke babuyiselwe emuva bonke abazonda iZiyoni.
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Kababe njengotshani ephahleni, obubuna bungakakhuli,
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7 ovunayo angagcwalisi ngabo isandla sakhe, lalowo obopha izithungo isifuba sakhe.
Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8 Labadlulayo bangatsho ukuthi: Isibusiso seNkosi kasibe phezu kwenu; siyalibusisa ebizweni leNkosi.
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of YHWH be upon you: we bless you in the name of YHWH.

< Amahubo 129 >