Amahubo 129

1 Kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, katsho-ke uIsrayeli,

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

2 kanengi bangihluphile kusukela ebutsheni bami, kanti kabangehlulanga.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 Abalimi balima emhlana wami, bayenza yaba mide imifolo yabo.

The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

4 INkosi ilungile, iqumile intambo zababi.

Yhwh is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 Kabayangeke babuyiselwe emuva bonke abazonda iZiyoni.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

6 Kababe njengotshani ephahleni, obubuna bungakakhuli,

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

7 ovunayo angagcwalisi ngabo isandla sakhe, lalowo obopha izithungo isifuba sakhe.

Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

8 Labadlulayo bangatsho ukuthi: Isibusiso seNkosi kasibe phezu kwenu; siyalibusisa ebizweni leNkosi.

Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of Yhwh be upon you: we bless you in the name of Yhwh.