Psalmorum 126

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

A song of ascents. When the Lord turned the fortunes of Zion, we were like dreamers.

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

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, our tongue with glad shouts; then among the nations they said, ‘The Lord has dealt greatly with them.’

3 Magnificavit Dominus facere nobiscum; facti sumus lætantes.

The Lord had dealt greatly with us, and we were rejoicing.

4 Converte, Domine, captivitatem nostram, sicut torrens in austro.

Turn our fortunes, O Lord, as the streams in the Negreb.

5 Qui seminant in lacrimis, in exsultatione metent.

They who sow in tears shall reap with glad shouts.

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

Forth they fare, with their burden of seed, and they weep as they go. But home, home, with glad shouts they shall come with their arms full of sheaves.