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Psalms 127
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1If it is not the LORD who builds a house, the builders are wasting their time. If it is not the LORD who watches over the city, the guards are wasting their time.
- 2It is a waste of time to get up early and stay up late, trying to make a living. The Lord provides for those he loves, even while they are sleeping.
- 3Children are a gift[1] from the LORD, a reward from a mother’s womb.
- 4A young man’s sons are like the arrows in a soldier’s hand.
- 5The man who fills his quiver with sons will be very blessed. He will never be defeated when he opposes his enemy at the city gates.[2]