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 tuæ. Filii tui sicut novellæ olivarum, in circuitu mensæ tuæ.

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

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, pacem super Israel.

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