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Psalm 127 (128) — Song of Ascents

Psalmus 127 • Vulgate 127 / Hebrew 128

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Complete historical Scripture text: English Douay-Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752), from the John Murphy edition (1899); Latin Clementine Vulgate. Both underlying texts are public domain. Psalm 127 in Vulgate/Douay-Rheims numbering is Psalm 128 in modern Hebrew numbering (shown in parentheses). Numbered verses follow each source, retaining any superscriptions it prints; headings and verse divisions can differ between editions. This reader has 6 numbered verses in each language. It belongs to the fifteen gradual psalms (Songs of Ascents) in grant 9. Grant 30 concerns reverent spiritual reading of approved Scripture, with its specified duration for a plenary indulgence.

Text edition English: Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision (1749–1752), John Murphy edition (1899). Latin: Clementine Vulgate.

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English text

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Estimated English reading time 35–60 seconds

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1. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways. 2. For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. 3. Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. 4. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 5. May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 6. And mayest thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel.

Latin text

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Estimated Latin reading time 25–55 seconds

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1. Canticum graduum. Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis ejus. 2. Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis, beatus es, et bene tibi erit. 3. Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans, in lateribus domus tuae; filii tui sicut novellae olivarum in circuitu mensae tuae. 4. Ecce sic benedicetur homo qui timet Dominum. 5. Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion, et videas bona Jerusalem omnibus diebus vitae tuae; 6. et videas filios filiorum tuorum, pacem super Israel.

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