Psalms 129

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

Ingoma yemiqanso. Sebengihluphe kakhulu kusukela ebutsheni bami katsho njalo u-Israyeli,

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

sebengihluphe kakhulu kusukela ebutsheni bami, kodwa kabangehlulanga.

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

Abalimi bawulimile umhlane wami benza imifolo emide.

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

Kodwa uThixo ulungile; ungikhulule ezintanjeni zababi.

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

Akuthi bonke abayizondayo iZiyoni babuyiselwe emuva beyangekile.

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

Sengathi bangaba njengotshani obukhula ephahleni obubuna bungakakhuli;

7 with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

umvuni angeke agcwalisa isandla sakhe ngabo, loba lowo obuthayo agcwalise izingalo zakhe.

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

Sengathi labo abadlulayo bangabokuthi, “Izibusiso zikaThixo mazibe kuwe; siyakubusisa ngegama likaThixo.”