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Psalm 126 (127) Clementine Vulgate

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 127 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)

Psalm 126 in VUL = Psalm 127 in RV1909, WEB.

VUL Clementine Vulgate
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Canticum graduum Salomonis. [Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum, in vanum laboraverunt qui ædificant eam. Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilat qui custodit eam.
127:1 Cántico gradual: para Salomón. SI Jehová no edificare la casa, en vano trabajan los que la edifican: si Jehová no guardare la ciudad, en vano vela la guarda.
127:1 A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
2 Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere: surgite postquam sederitis, qui manducatis panem doloris. Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum,
127:2 Por demás os es el madrugar á levantaros, el veniros tarde á reposar, el comer pan de dolores: pues que á su amado dará [Dios] el sueño.
127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
3 ecce hæreditas Domini, filii; merces, fructus ventris.
127:3 He aquí, heredad de Jehová son los hijos: cosa de estima el fruto del vientre.
127:3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 Sicut sagittæ in manu potentis, ita filii excussorum.
127:4 Como saetas en mano del valiente, así son los hijos [habidos] en la juventud.
127:4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
5 Beatus vir qui implevit desiderium suum ex ipsis: non confundetur cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta.]
127:5 Bienaventurado el hombre que hinchió su aljaba de ellos: no será avergonzado cuando hablare con los enemigos en la puerta.
127:5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Cross references (5)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in VUL.

  1. 1 Proverbs 16:9; 1 Corinthians 3:7; Proverbs 21:30–31; 1 Corinthians 3:9–15; Psalm 33:16–18
  2. 2 Ecclesiastes 5:12; Psalm 4:8; Job 11:18; Psalm 3:5; Jeremiah 31:26
  3. 3 Psalm 128:3–4; Deuteronomy 28:4; 1 Samuel 1:27; Genesis 48:4; Genesis 33:5
  4. 4 Proverbs 17:6; Proverbs 31:28; Jeremiah 50:9; Psalm 120:4
  5. 5 Proverbs 27:11; Job 42:12–16; Job 5:4; Genesis 50:23

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 127.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXVI)

    How man had come into captivity, let us ask the Apostle Paul....For he saith: "For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin." Behold whence we became captives; because we were sold under sin. Who sold us? We ourselves, who consented to the seducer. We could sell ourselves; we could not redeem ourselves.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 127:1 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVII, Chapters 12–13)

    … ear of Thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house." For this house is built both by us through living well, and by God through helping us to live well; for "except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." And when the final dedication of this house shall take place, then what God here …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 127:1 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon LV)

    "Except the Lord keep the city, he that keepeth it waketh but in vain." And what "city"?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 127:1 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter VIII — 48-59)

    For "He that keepeth Israel neither slumbereth nor sleepeth;" and, "Except the Lord keep the city, they wake in vain who keep it." He then is our Keeper who is our Creator.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)