The Holy Bible – Knox Translation
The Book of Psalms
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Psalm 126
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(A song of ascents. Of Solomon.)
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
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
Fatherhood itself is the Lord’s gift, the fruitful womb is a reward that comes from him.
4
Crown of thy youth, children are like arrows in a warrior’s hand.
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.