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Psalm 127 · Book Five · Solomon

A song of ascents. Of Solomon.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

Song of Ascents

About this psalm

Five verses from Solomon about effort that goes nowhere without God: Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows. Then, without apparent connection, it turns to children and calls them a heritage and an arrow in the hand of a mighty man.

Read it when you have been getting up early and staying up late.

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¹Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it:except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.²It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows:for so he giveth his beloved sleep.³Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:and the fruit of the womb is his reward.⁴As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;so are children of the youth.⁵Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

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