Challoner’s heading
Saepe expugnaverunt.
Psalm 128 in the Vulgate numbering this edition follows; Psalm 129 in the Hebrew numbering of most modern Bibles.
1A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say. 2Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me. 3The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity. 4The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners: 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion. 6Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up: 7Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom. 8And 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.