Psalms 127

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NOVA VULGATA
1 A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD build the house, they labor in vain who build. Unless the LORD guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch.	1 Canticum ascensionum. Salomonis. Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, in vanum laborant, qui aedificant eam. Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilat, qui custodit eam.
2 It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil-- all this God gives to his beloved in sleep.	2 Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere et sero quiescere, qui manducatis panem laboris, quia dabit dilectis suis somnum.
3 Children too are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a reward.	3 Ecce hereditas Domini filii, merces fructus ventris.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children born in one's youth.	4 Sicut sagittae in manu potentis, ita filii iuventutis.
5 Blessed are they whose quivers are full. They will never be shamed contending with foes at the gate.	5 Beatus vir, qui implevit pharetram suam ex ipsis: non confundetur, cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta.