Psalmorum 129

1 Canticum graduum. Saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea, dicat nunc Israel.

A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,

2 Saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea: etenim non potuerunt mihi.

Many a time have they 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 upon my back; They made long their furrows.

4 Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum:

Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes, qui oderunt Sion.

Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

6 Fiant sicut foenum tectorum: quod priusquam evellatur, exaruit:

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

7 De quo non implebit manum suam qui metit, et sinum suum qui manipulos colligit.

Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom:

8 Et non dixerunt qui praeteribant: Benedictio Domini super vos: benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.

Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.