Psalmorum 129

1 Canticum graduum. [Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea, dicat nunc Israël;

[A Song of Ascents.] Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

2 sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea: etenim non potuerunt mihi.

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

3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

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

4 Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.

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

5 Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

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

6 Fiant sicut fœnum tectorum, quod priusquam evellatur exaruit:

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

7 de quo non implevit manum suam qui metit, et sinum suum qui manipulos colligit.

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

8 Et non dixerunt qui præteribant: Benedictio Domini super vos. Benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.]

Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the name of the LORD."