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.

Jehovah 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 Jehovah be on you. We bless you in the name of Jehovah."