Psalmorum 126

1 Canticum graduum. In convertendo Dominus captivitatem Sion: facti sumus sicut consolati:

A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.

2 Tunc repletum est gaudio os nostrum: et lingua nostra exultatione. Tunc dicent inter gentes: Magnificavit Dominus facere cum eis.

Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

3 Magnificavit Dominus facere nobiscum: facti sumus lætantes.

The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

4 Converte Domine captivitatem nostram, sicut torrens in Austro.

Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.

5 Qui seminant in lacrymis, in exultatione metent.

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

6 Euntes ibant et flebant, mittentes semina sua. Venientes autem venient cum exultatione, portantes manipulos suos.

He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.