Psalmorum 128

1 Canticum graduum. Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis eius.

A Song of Ascents. How happy is every one that revereth Yahweh, who walketh in his ways!

2 Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: beatus es, et bene tibi erit.

The labour of thine own hands, surely thou shalt eat. How happy thou, and well for thine!

3 Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans, in lateribus domus tuæ. Filii tui sicut novellæ olivarum, in circuitu mensæ tuæ.

Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house, —Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, round about thy table.

4 Ecce sic benedicetur homo, qui timet Dominum.

Lo! thus, shall be blessed the man who revereth Yahweh.

5 Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion: et videas bona Ierusalem omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ.

Yahweh will bless thee, out of Zion, —and behold thou the welfare of Jerusalem, all the days of thy life!

6 Et videas filios filiorum tuorum, pacem super Israel.

And behold thou thy children’s children, —Prosperity on Israel!