Chapter 128

The Church often ( ℣.3 and much) impugned, is not overcome. ℣.4 Her persecuters are destroyed, ℣.6 contemned, ℣.8 and cursed.

1. 1

   A gradual Canticle. Often have they impugned me from my youth, let Israel now say:

2. 2

   Often have they impugned me from my youth: but they have not prevailed against me.

3. 3

   Sinners have builded upon my back: they have prolonged their iniquity.

4. 4

   Our just Lord will cut the necks of sinners:

5. 5

   let them all be confounded and turned backward, that hate Sion.

6. 6

   Let them be made as grass in the tops of houses: which is withered before it be plucked up.

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   Whereof the reaper hath not filled his hand, and he that gathereth the sheaves his bosom.

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   And they said not that passed by: The blessing of our Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of our Lord.