Psalm 127:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Except the LORD build the house, They labour in vain that build it: Except the LORD keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ EXCEPT THE Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain. [Ps. 121:1, 3, 5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹ Unless it is the LORD who builds the house, the builders’ work is pointless. Unless it is the LORD who protects the city, the guard on duty is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ A Canticle in steps. Blessed are all those who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

Psalm 127:1 Cross References

1 Kings 5:12

7 And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

1 Chronicles 28:10

5 He gave also gold for the golden candlesticks, and their lamps, according to the dimensions of every candlestick, and the lamps thereof. In like manner also he gave silver by weight for the silver candlesticks, and for their lamps according to the diversity of the dimensions of them.

1 Chronicles 28:20

Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.

1 Chronicles 29:19

4 And all the princes, and men of power, and all the sons of king David gave their hand, and were subject to Solomon the king.

Psalm 120:1

I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

Psalm 121:1

May the Lord keep thy going in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

Psalm 122:1

For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

Psalm 123:1

perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

Psalm 124:1

Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 125:1

The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful.

Psalm 126:1

It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,

Psalm 72:1

And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Psalm 78:69

We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Proverbs 16:9

6 Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

8 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

Song of Solomon 3:3

1 Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the joy of his heart.

Song of Solomon 5:7

5 His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.

Isaiah 27:3

1 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Isaiah 56:10

In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and thou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice. Shall I not be angry at these things?

Isaiah 62:6

Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that tread in the winepress?

Jeremiah 51:12

0 Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:

Jeremiah 51:31

9 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:14

3 But every one in his own order: the firstfruits Christ, then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

1 Corinthians 3:7

6 Know you not, that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ?

Galatians 4:11

0 And I would willingly be present with you now, and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.

Deuteronomy 8:18

Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.

Joshua 2:2

Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that leadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out, the gate was presently shut.