1“A song of the degrees.” Happy is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways.

2When thou eatest the labor of thy hands: [then] wilt thou be happy, and it shall be well with thee.

3Thy wife is [then] as a fruitful vine in the recesses of thy house: thy children, like olive-plants round about thy table.

4Behold, truly thus shall be blessed the man that feareth the Lord.

5May the Lord bless thee out of Zion: and see thou the happiness of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

6And see thou thy children's children: may there be peace upon Israel.