A gradual canticle.

Canticum graduum.

(A song of ascents.)

Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis ejus.

Blessed thou art, if thou dost fear the Lord, and follow his paths!

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: beatus es, et bene tibi erit.

Thyself shall eat what thy hands have toiled to win; blessed thou art; all good shall be thine.

Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus domus tuæ; filii tui sicut novellæ olivarum in circuitu mensæ tuæ.

Thy wife shall be fruitful as a vine, in the heart of thy home, the children round thy table sturdy as olive-branches.

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

Ecce sic benedicetur homo qui timet Dominum.

Let a man serve the Lord, such is the blessing that awaits him.

May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion, et videas bona Jerusalem omnibus diebus vitæ tuæ.

May the Lord who dwells in Sion bless thee; mayest thou see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long.

And mayst thou see thy children’s children, peace upon Israel.

Et videas filios filiorum tuorum: pacem super Israël.

Mayest thou live to see thy children’s children, and peace resting upon Israel.