Psalms 129

canticum graduum saepe expugnaverunt me ab adulescentia mea dicat nunc Israhel

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

saepe expugnaverunt me ab adulescentia mea sed non potuerunt mihi

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

super cervicem meam arabant arantes prolongaverunt sulcum suum

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

Dominus iustus concidet laqueos impiorum

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

confundantur et revertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion

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

fiant sicut faenum tectorum quod statim ut viruerit arescet

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

de quo non implebit manum suam messor et sinum suum manipulos faciens

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

de quo non dixerunt transeuntes benedictio Domini super vos benediximus vobis in nomine Domini

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