Psalms 127:5
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.
6Going they went and wept, casting their seeds.
Cross References
Job 1:2And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 42:12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Proverbs 27:11Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.
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 →