Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
Clementine Vulgate
Psalms 126
1Canticum graduum Salomonis. [Nisi Dominus dificaverit domum, in vanum laboraverunt qui dificant eam. Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilat qui custodit eam. 2Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere: surgite postquam sederitis, qui manducatis panem doloris. Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum, 3ecce hreditas Domini, filii; merces, fructus ventris. 4Sicut sagitt in manu potentis, ita filii excussorum. 5Beatus vir qui implevit desiderium suum ex ipsis: non confundetur cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta.]
Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.