Mezmurlar 128

¹Yükselişlerin ezgisi. Gençliğimden beri benimle sıklıkla savaştılar, desin şimdi İsrail.

²Gençliğimden beri benimle sıklıkla savaştılar, nitekim bana güç yetiremediler.

³Sırtımın üzerinde saban sürdü günahkarlar, kendi yasasızlıklarını boydan boya uzattılar.

⁴Adil olan Rab, günahkarların boyunlarını kesip kopardı.

⁵Utandırılsınlar ve geri püskürtülsünler Siyon'dan nefret edenlerin hepsi.

⁶Damların üzerindeki ot gibi olsunlar, ki o daha kökünden sökülmeden kurur.

⁷Ne orakçı onunla elini doldurdu, ne de demetleri toplayan kendi kucağını.

⁸Yoldan geçenler de demediler: "Rabbin bereketi üzerinizde olsun, sizi Rabbin adıyla kutsadık!"

¹᾿ῼδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν. - ΠΛΕΟΝΑΚΙΣ ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου, εἰπάτω δὴ ᾿Ισραήλ·

²πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου, καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησάν μοι.

³ἐπὶ τὸν νῶτόν μου ἐτέκταινον οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί, ἐμάκρυναν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν.

⁴Κύριος δίκαιος συνέκοψεν αὐχένας ἁμαρτωλῶν.

⁵αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ἀποστραφήτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω πάντες οἱ μισοῦντες Σιών.

⁶γενηθήτωσαν ὡσεὶ χόρτος δωμάτων, ὃς πρὸ τοῦ ἐκσπασθῆναι ἐξηράνθη·

⁷οὗ οὐκ ἐπλήρωσε τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὁ θερίζων καὶ τὸν κόλπον αὐτοῦ ὁ τὰ δράγματα συλλέγων,

⁸καὶ οὐκ εἶπαν οἱ παράγοντες· εὐλογία Κυρίου ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς, εὐλογήκαμεν ὑμᾶς ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου.

¹[A Song of Degrees.] Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say:

²Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me.

³The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

⁴The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners.

⁵Let all that hate Sion be put to shame and turned back.

⁶Let them be as the grass of the house-tops, which withers before it is plucked up.

⁷Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.

⁸Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.