The Book of PsalmsPsalm 128
The Catholic Public Domain Version numbers the Psalms as the Latin Vulgate does. In Bibles translated from the Hebrew this is Psalm 129. Read Psalm 129 in the WEBC.
128A Canticle in steps. They have often fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say:
2they have often fought against me from my youth, yet they could not prevail over me.
3The sinners have made fabrications behind my back. They have prolonged their iniquity.
4The just Lord will cut the necks of sinners.
5Let all those who hate Zion be confounded and turned backwards.
6Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can be pulled up:
7with it, he who reaps does not fill his hand and he who gathers sheaves does not fill his bosom.
8And those who were passing by have not said to them: “The blessing of the Lord be upon you. We have blessed you in the name of the Lord.”