§ The Book of Psalms 128

1 Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.

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

2 Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.

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

3 The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.

4 The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

4 Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.

5 let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

5 Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.

6 Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:

6 Fiant sicut fœnum tectorum, quod priusquam evellatur exaruit:

7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.

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