Psalms

Chapter 126

  1. 1

    Vain is the builder’s toil, if the house is not of the Lord’s building; vainly the guard keeps watch, if the city has not the Lord for its guardian.

  2. 2

    Vain, that you should be astir before daybreak, and sit on over your tasks late into the night, you whose bread is so hardly won; is it not in the hours of sleep that he blesses the men he loves?

  3. 3

    Fatherhood itself is the Lord’s gift, the fruitful womb is a reward that comes from him.

  4. 4

    Crown of thy youth, children are like arrows in a warrior’s hand.

  5. 5

    Happy, whose quiver is well filled with these; their cause will not be set aside when they plead against their enemies at the gate.