Psalm 129

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Clementine Vulgate (Psalm 128)

Latin text

1 Canticum graduum. Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea, dicat nunc Israël ;

2 sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea : etenim non potuerunt mihi.

3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores ; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

4 Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.

5 Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

6 Fiant sicut foenum tectorum, quod priusquam evellatur exaruit :

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

8 Et non dixerunt qui præteribant : Benedictio Domini super vos. Benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.

Church of England 1662 Book of Common Prayer

English text

1 Many a time have they fought against me from my youth up : may Israel now say.

2 Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up : but they have not prevailed against me.

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

4 But the righteous Lord : hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.

5 Let them be confounded and turned backward : as many as have evil will at Sion.

6 Let them be even as the grass growing upon the house-tops : which withereth afore it be plucked up;

7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand : neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom.

8 So that they who go by say not so much as, The Lord prosper you : we wish you good luck in the Name of the Lord.