Psalmorum 128

1 canticum graduum beati omnes qui timent Dominum qui ambulant in viis eius

“A song of the degrees.” Happy is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways.

2 labores manuum tuarum quia; manducabis beatus es et bene tibi erit

When thou eatest the labor of thy hands: [then] wilt thou be happy, and it shall be well with thee.

3 uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tuae filii tui sicut novella olivarum in circuitu mensae tuae

Thy wife is [then] as a fruitful vine in the recesses of thy house: thy children, like olive-plants round about thy table.

4 ecce sic benedicetur homo qui timet Dominum

Behold, truly thus shall be blessed the man that feareth the Lord.

5 benedicat te Dominus ex Sion et videas bona Hierusalem omnibus diebus vitae tuae

May the Lord bless thee out of Zion: and see thou the happiness of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

6 et videas filios filiorum tuorum pax super Israhel

And see thou thy children's children: may there be peace upon Israel.