Psalms 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman wakes in vain.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2In vain you rise early, and finish so late, and so eat sorrow’s bread; for he cares for his loved ones in their sleep.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:2The king of Jericho was told that some men of Israel had come that night to find out about the country,

Psalms 33:16It is not by great armies that kings are victorious, it is not by great strength that a warrior saves himself;

Psalms 78:69And he built like the heights his sanctuary, like the earth which he founded forever.

Psalms 121:1I lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where will help for me come?

Matthew Henry on Psalms 127:1

This is a family-psalm, as divers before were state-poems and church-poems. It is entitled (as we read it) "for Solomon," dedicated to him by his father. He having a house to build, a city to keep, and seed to raise up to his father, David directs him to look up to God, and to depend upon his providence, without which all his wisdom, care, and industry, would not serve. Some take it to have been penned by Solomon himself, and it may as well be read, "a song of Solomon," who wrote a great many; and they compare it… Read the whole commentary →

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