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Psalms 127

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 126 Psalms 128

¹Unless Yahweh builds the house,

²It is vain for you to rise up early,

³Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.

⁴As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,

⁵Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.

¹Unless Yahweh builds the house,

²It is vain for you to rise up early,

³Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.

⁴As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,

⁵Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.

¹Unless Yahweh builds the house,

²It is vain for you to rise up early,

³Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.

⁴As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,

⁵Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.

In context

Psalms 127 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

²Then our mouth was filled with laughter,

³Yahweh has done great things for us,

⁴Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh,

⁵Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

⁶He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing,

Immediately after

¹Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,

²For you will eat the labor of your hands.

³Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house,

⁴Behold, this is how the man who fears Yahweh is blessed.

⁵May Yahweh bless you out of Zion,

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,