128:1 A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.
Canticum graduum. Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea, dicat nunc Israël;

128:2 Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.
sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea: etenim non potuerunt mihi.

128:3 The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.
Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

128:4 The Lord, who is just, will cut the necks of sinners:
Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.

128:5 let them all be confounded, and turned back, that hate Sion.
Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

128:6 Let them be as grass on the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:
Fiant sicut fœnum tectorum, quod priusquam evellatur exaruit:

128:7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom.
de quo non implevit manum suam qui metit, et sinum suum qui manipulos colligit.

128:8 And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.
Et non dixerunt qui præteribant: Benedictio Domini super vos. Benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.