1 Psalm 127 Unless Yahweh Builds the House A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.Unless Yahweh builds the house,They labor in vain who build it;Unless Yahweh watches the city,The watchman keeps awake in vain.
2 It is in vain that you rise up early,That you sit out late,O you who eat the bread of 127:2Lit toils painful labors;Forin this manner, He gives sleep to His beloved.
3 ¶Behold, children are 127:3Or a heritage an inheritance of Yahweh,The fruit of the womb is a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,So are the children of one’s youth.
5 How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them;They will not be ashamedWhen they speak with enemies in the gate.