1 A Song of the going up. When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.2 Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.3 The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.4 Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

1 Canticum graduum Salomonis. [Nisi Dominus dificaverit domum,in vanum laboraverunt qui dificant eam.Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem,frustra vigilat qui custodit eam.2 Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere :surgite postquam sederitis,qui manducatis panem doloris.Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum,3 ecce hreditas Domini, filii ;merces, fructus ventris.4 Sicut sagitt in manu potentis,ita filii excussorum.5 Beatus vir qui implevit desiderium suum ex ipsis :non confundetur cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta.]