Psalms 129

1 A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:

ᾠδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου εἰπάτω δὴ Ισραηλ

2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησάν μοι

3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου μου ἐτέκταινον οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί ἐμάκρυναν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν

4 The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

κύριος δίκαιος συνέκοψεν αὐχένας ἁμαρτωλῶν

5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ἀποστραφήτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω πάντες οἱ μισοῦντες Σιων

6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

γενηθήτωσαν ὡς χόρτος δωμάτων ὃς πρὸ τοῦ ἐκσπασθῆναι ἐξηράνθη

7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

οὗ οὐκ ἐπλήρωσεν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὁ θερίζων καὶ τὸν κόλπον αὐτοῦ ὁ τὰ δράγματα συλλέγων

8 Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”

καὶ οὐκ εἶπαν οἱ παράγοντες εὐλογία κυρίου ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς εὐλογήκαμεν ὑμᾶς ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου