Psalms 129

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

canticum graduum saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea dicat nunc Israhel

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

saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea etenim non potuerunt mihi

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

supra dorsum meum fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

4 The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum

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

confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion

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

fiant sicut faenum tectorum quod priusquam evellatur exaruit

7 Wherewith the mower fills not his hand; nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.

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

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

et non dixerunt qui praeteribant benedictio Domini super vos benediximus vobis in nomine Domini