Psalms 128

1A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.

1Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.

2Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.

2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

3The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

4The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

4Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

5The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

6Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:

6Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

7Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.

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8And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.

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