Psalms 129

1 A song of ascents. ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth’ thus let Israel say

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

2 ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησάν μοι

3 ‘The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long.

ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου μου ἐτέκταινον οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί ἐμάκρυναν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν

4 But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.’

κύριος δίκαιος συνέκοψεν αὐχένας ἁμαρτωλῶν

5 Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated.

αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ἀποστραφήτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω πάντες οἱ μισοῦντες Σιων

6 May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up;

γενηθήτωσαν ὡς χόρτος δωμάτων ὃς πρὸ τοῦ ἐκσπασθῆναι ἐξηράνθη

7 which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves

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

8 whereof no one says as they pass, ‘The blessing of God be upon you.’ In the name of the Lord we bless you.

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