Psalmorum 129

1 canticum graduum saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea dicat nunc Israhel

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

2 saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea etenim non potuerunt mihi

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

3 supra dorsum meum fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

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

4 Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum

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

5 confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion

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

6 fiant sicut faenum tectorum quod priusquam evellatur exaruit

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which wither before it grows up:

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

With which the mower fills not his hand; nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.

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

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