Psalms 128

DOUAI-RHEIMS	VULGATA
1 Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.	1 Canticum graduum. Sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea, dicat nunc Israël ;
2 It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,	2 sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea : etenim non potuerunt mihi.
3 behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.	3 Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores ; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.
4 As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.	4 Dominus justus concidit cervices peccatorum.
5 Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.	5 Confundantur, et convertantur retrorsum omnes qui oderunt Sion.
	6 Fiant sicut f?num tectorum, quod priusquam evellatur exaruit :
	7 de quo non implevit manum suam qui metit, et sinum suum qui manipulos colligit.
	8 Et non dixerunt qui præteribant : Benedictio Domini super vos. Benediximus vobis in nomine Domini.