Amahubo 129

1 Kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, katsho-ke uIsrayeli,

A song of ascents. “Often since my youth they have attacked me,” let Israel say.

2 kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, kanti kabangehlulanga.

“Often since my youth they have attacked me, yet they have not defeated me.

3 Abalimi balima emhlana wami, bayenza yaba mide imifolo yabo.

The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.

4 INkosi ilungile, iqumile intambo zababi.

Yahweh is righteous; he has cut the ropes of the wicked.”

5 Kabayangeke babuyiselwe emuva bonke abazonda iZiyoni.

May they all be put to shame and turned back, those who hate Zion.

6 Kababe njengotshani ephahleni, obubuna bungakakhuli,

May they be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,

7 ovunayo angagcwalisi ngabo isandla sakhe, lalowo obopha izithungo isifuba sakhe.

that cannot fill the reaper's hand or the chest of the one who binds bundles of grain together.

8 Labadlulayo bangatsho ukuthi: Isibusiso seNkosi kasibe phezu kwenu; siyalibusisa ebizweni leNkosi.

May those who pass by not say, “May the blessing of Yahweh be on you; we bless you in the name of Yahweh.”