Psalms 127:2

Psalms chapter 127 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; Forso he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

King James Version · 1611

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.

American Standard Version · 1901

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; Forso he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

v.1Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

v.2This passage

v.3Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah
Proverbs 31:15
She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Acts 12:5
Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.
Psalms 4:8
In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.