< Psalmorum 128 >
1 Canticum graduum. Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis ejus.
A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
2 Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: beatus es, et bene tibi erit.
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tuæ; filii tui sicut novellæ olivarum in circuitu mensæ tuæ.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
4 Ecce sic benedicetur homo qui timet Dominum.
In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
5 Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion, et videas bona Jerusalem omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ.
May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
6 Et videas filios filiorum tuorum: pacem super Israël.
that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!