Douay-Rheims><Vulgate><Knox Bible
A gradual canticle.
Canticum graduum.
(A song of ascents.)
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Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.
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Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis ejus.
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Blessed thou art, if thou dost fear the Lord, and follow his paths!
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For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
2
Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: beatus es, et bene tibi erit.
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Thyself shall eat what thy hands have toiled to win; blessed thou art; all good shall be thine.
3
Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.
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Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tuæ; filii tui sicut novellæ olivarum in circuitu mensæ tuæ.
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Thy wife shall be fruitful as a vine, in the heart of thy home, the children round thy table sturdy as olive-branches.
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Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
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Ecce sic benedicetur homo qui timet Dominum.
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Let a man serve the Lord, such is the blessing that awaits him.
5
May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
5
Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion, et videas bona Jerusalem omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ.
5
May the Lord who dwells in Sion bless thee; mayest thou see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long.
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And mayst thou see thy children’s children, peace upon Israel.
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Et videas filios filiorum tuorum: pacem super Israël.
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Mayest thou live to see thy children’s children, and peace resting upon Israel.