Psalms 128

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NOVA 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 ascensionum. Beatus omnis, qui timet Dominum, qui ambulat in viis eius.
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 Labores manuum tuarum manducabis, beatus es, et bene tibi erit.
3 behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.	3 Uxor tua sicut vitis fructifera in lateribus domus tuae; filii tui sicut novellae olivarum in circuitu mensae tuae.
4 As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.	4 Ecce sic benedicetur homo, qui timet Dominum.
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 Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion, et videas bona Ierusalem omnibus diebus vitae tuae;
	6 et videas filios filiorum tuorum. Pax super Israel!