Psalm 126

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.

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.

Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.

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.

Nisi Dóminus ædificáverit domum,
in vane laboravérunt qui ædíficant eam.

Nisi Dóminus custodíerit civitátem,
frustra vígilat qui custódit eam.

Vanum est vobis ante lucem súrgere:
súrgite postquam sedéritis,
qui manducátis panem dolóris.

Cum déderit diléctis suis somnum:
ecce heréditas Dómini fílii:
merces, fructus ventris.

Sicut sagíttæ in manu poténtis:
ita fílii excussórum.

Beátus vir qui implévit desidérium suum ex ipsis:
non confundétur cum loquétur inimícis suis in porta.