Psalms 127:2
For you will eat by the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it will be well with you.
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In Context
1A Canticle in steps. Blessed are all those who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.
Psalms 3:5I have cried out to the Lord with my voice, and he has heard me from his holy mountain. Pause
Psalms 39:5Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord causes riches. Affliction will not be a companion to them.
Proverbs 31:18She has tasted and seen that her tasks are good; her lamp shall not be extinguished at night.
Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart: “I will go forth and overflow with delights, and I will enjoy good things.” And I saw that this, too, is emptiness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 127:2-5
Dependence on Providence; God the Giver of Prosperity. 1 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2 It 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. 3 Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of… Read the whole commentary →