Psalm 127:2

A Conservative Version

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Psalm 4:8

In peace I will both lay down and sleep, for thou, LORD, alone make me dwell in safety.

Job 11:18

And thou shall be secure, because there is hope. Yea, thou shall search [about thee], and shall take thy rest in safety.

Psalm 3:5

I laid down and slept. I awoke, for LORD sustains me.

Jeremiah 31:26

Upon this I awoke, and beheld, and my sleep was sweet to me.

Ezekiel 34:25

And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of

Psalm 60:5

That thy beloved ones may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.