Psalm 129
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Clementine Vulgate
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.