Liber Psalmorum, 129

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0. A Song of Ascents.

1. Canticum ascensionum. Saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea, dicat nunc Israel,

1. "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth," let Israel now say --

2. saepe expugnaverunt me a iuventute mea, etenim non potuerunt adversum me.

2. "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3. Supra dorsum meum araverunt aratores, prolongaverunt sulcos suos.

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

4. Dominus autem iustus concidit cervices peccatorum.

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

5. Confundantur et convertantur retrorsum omnes, qui oderunt Sion.

5. May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

6. Fiant sicut fenum tectorum, quod, priusquam evellatur, exaruit;

6. Let them be like 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.

7. with which the reaper does not fill his hand or the binder of sheaves his bosom,

8. Et non dixerunt, qui praeteribant: “Benedictio Domini super vos, benedicimus vobis in nomine Domini”.

8. while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!"