Psalm 128

The Church of God is invincible: her persecutors come to nothing.

1. 1

   A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.

2. 2

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

3. 3

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

4. 4

   The Lord, who is just, will cut the necks of sinners: 5 let them all be confounded, and turned back, that hate Sion.

5. 5

   Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

6. 6

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

7. 7

   Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom.

8. 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.