Chapter 127
A Prayer for Protection and Prosperity
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Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain.
[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he[note: That is, Yahweh] provides[note: Hebrew "gives"] for his beloved in [his] sleep.[note: Or "so he gives sleep to his beloved"]
