A Song of degrees.
1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him .
1 canticum graduum Salomonis
nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum
in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam
nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem frustra vigilat qui custodit eam
2 frustra vobis est de mane consurgere postquam sederitis
qui manducatis panem idolorum
sic dabit diligentibus se somnum
3 ecce hereditas Domini filii mercis fructus ventris
4 sicut sagittae in manu potentis ita filii iuventutis
5 beatus vir qui implevit faretram suam ex ipsis
non confundentur cum loquentur inimicis in porta