
Psalm 129 - Sæpe expugnaverunt

1   “Many a time have they fought against me from my youth on,”  +
    may Israel now say;

2   “Indeed, many a time have they afflicted me from my youth on,   +
    but they have not prevailed against me.

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

4   But the righteous Lord +
    has hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.”

5   Let them be ashamed and turned backward, +
    as many as hate Zion.

6   Let them be as the grass growing upon the housetops, +
    which withers before it grows up,

7   Which does not fill the hand of the reaper, +
    neither the bosom of him who binds up the sheaves,

8   So that those who go by say not so much as, “The Lord prosper you. +
    We bless you in the Name of the Lord.”
