Psalmorum 128

1 Canticum graduum. Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis eius.

A song for pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. Happy are all those who worship the Lord, everyone who follows his ways!

2 Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: beatus es, et bene tibi erit.

You will eat what your own hands have produced. You will be happy and do well.

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 growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your table.

4 Ecce sic benedicetur homo, qui timet Dominum.

This will certainly be the Lord's blessing on those who worship him.

5 Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion: et videas bona Ierusalem omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ.

May the Lord go on blessing you from Zion; may you see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life.

6 Et videas filios filiorum tuorum, pacem super Israel.

May you see your children's children. May Israel be at peace!