Old Testament
Psalms 127
Dependence, Labor, and Children
Overview
This Solomonic psalm teaches that human labor — whether building, guarding, or striving — is fruitless apart from God's sustaining hand, and that children are not personal achievements but a divine gift and inheritance, together calling the reader to a posture of radical dependence on the Lord as the true source of every fruitful endeavor.
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Psalms 127
1A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
3Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
4As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
5Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.