Psalmorum 129

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

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel [God prevails] now say,

2 saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute 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 fabricabantur peccatores prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

4 Dominus iustus concidet cervices peccatorum

Adonai 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 [Mountain ridge, Marking].

6 fiant sicut faenum 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 does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

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

Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Adonai be on you. We bless you in Adonai’s name.”