< Psalms 128 >
1 A Song of Ascents. How happy is every one that revereth Yahweh, who walketh in his ways!
Canticum graduum. Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis eius.
2 The labour of thine own hands, surely thou shalt eat. How happy thou, and well for thine!
Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: beatus es, et bene tibi erit.
3 Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house, —Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, round about thy table.
Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans, in lateribus domus tuae. Filii tui sicut novellae olivarum, in circuitu mensae tuae.
4 Lo! thus, shall be blessed the man who revereth Yahweh.
Ecce sic benedicetur homo, qui timet Dominum.
5 Yahweh will bless thee, out of Zion, —and behold thou the welfare of Jerusalem, all the days of thy life!
Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion: et videas bona Ierusalem omnibus diebus vitae tuae.
6 And behold thou thy children’s children, —Prosperity on Israel!
Et videas filios filiorum tuorum, pacem super Israel.