Psalm 127:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ If יהוה  does not build the house, Its builders have laboured in vain. If יהוה  does not guard the city, The watchman has stayed awake in vain.

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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.

Psalm 127:1 Cross References

1 Kings 5:12

And יהוה  gave Shelomoh wisdom, as He promised him. And there was peace between Ḥ

1 Chronicles 28:10

“See, now, for יהוה  has chosen you to build a house for the set-apart place. Be strong, and do it.”

1 Chronicles 28:20

And Dawiḏ

1 Chronicles 29:19

“And give my son Shelomoh a perfect heart to guard Your commands and Your witnesses and Your laws, to do all, and to build the palace for which I have prepared.”

Psalm 120:1

In my distress I cried to יהוה, And He answered me.

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the hills; Where does my help come from?

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the House of יהוה.”

Psalm 123:1

I shall lift up my eyes Unto You who dwell in the heavens.

Psalm 124:1

“If it had not been יהוה  who was on our side,” Let Yisra’ĕ

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in יהוה  Are like Mount Tsiyon – It is not shaken, it remains forever.

Psalm 126:1

When יהוה  turns back the captivity of Tsiyon, We shall be like dreamers.

Psalm 72:1

O Elohim, give the sovereign Your right-rulings, And Your righteousness to the Son of a sovereign.

Psalm 78:69

And He built His set-apart place like the heights, Like the earth He founded it forever.

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way, But יהוה  establishes his steps.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty, nor even bread to the wise, nor even riches to men of understanding, nor even favour to men of knowledge – for time and chance meets with them all.

Song of Solomon 3:3

The watchmen who go about the city found me, to whom I said, “Have you seen the beloved of my being?”

Song of Solomon 5:7

The watchmen who went about the city found me. They struck me, they bruised me; The keepers of the walls lifted my veil from me.

Isaiah 27:3

“I, יהוה, do guard it, I water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I guard it night and day.

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen are blind, all of them, they have not known. All of them are dumb dogs, unable to bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 62:6

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Yerushalayim, all the day and all the night, continually, who are not silent. You who remember יהוה, give yourselves no rest,

Jeremiah 51:12

Lift up a banner on the walls of Baḇ

Jeremiah 51:31

One runner runs to meet another, and one reporter to meet another, to report to the sovereign of Baḇ

1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is empty, and your belief also empty,

1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is any at all, but Elohim who gives the increase.

Galatians 4:11

I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.

Deuteronomy 8:18

“But you shall remember יהוה  your Elohim, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

Joshua 2:2

But it was reported to the sovereign of Yeriḥ