Psalmorum 122

1 Canticum graduum. Lætatus sum in his quæ dicta sunt mihi: In domum Domini ibimus.

A Song of Degrees. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

2 Stantes erant pedes nostri in atriis tuis, Jerusalem.

Our feet stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem, quæ ædificatur ut civitas, cujus participatio ejus in idipsum.

Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete.

4 Illuc enim ascenderunt tribus, tribus Domini: testimonium Israël, ad confitendum nomini Domini.

For thither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

5 Quia illic sederunt sedes in judicio, sedes super domum David.

For there are set thrones for judgment, [even] thrones for the house of David.

6 Rogate quæ ad pacem sunt Jerusalem, et abundantia diligentibus te.

Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and [let there be] prosperity to them that love thee.

7 Fiat pax in virtute tua, et abundantia in turribus tuis.

Let peace, I pray, be within thine host, and prosperity in thy palaces.

8 Propter fratres meos et proximos meos, loquebar pacem de te.

For the sake of my brethren and my neighbours, I have indeed spoken peace concerning thee.

9 Propter domum Domini Dei nostri, quæsivi bona tibi.

Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought thy good.