Beati omnes. The fear of God is the way to happiness.
1 Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.
Canticum graduum. Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, qui ambulant in viis ejus.
2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis, beatus es, et bene tibi erit.
3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.
Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans, in lateribus domus tuae; filii tui sicut novellae olivarum in circuitu mensae tuae.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
Ecce sic benedicetur homo qui timet Dominum.
5 May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Benedicat tibi Dominus ex Sion, et videas bona Jerusalem omnibus diebus vitae tuae;
6 And mayest thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel.
et videas filios filiorum tuorum, pacem super Israel.
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