Psalm 127:2

New American Bible - revised edition

It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil— all this God gives to his beloved in sleep.

Cross References

Job 11:18

And you shall be secure, because there is hope; you shall look round you and lie down in safety;

Psalm 3:5

With my own voice I will call out to the Lord, and he will answer me from his holy mountain. Selah

Psalm 4:8

But you have given my heart more joy than they have when grain and wine abound.

Psalm 60:5

You made your people go through hardship, made us stagger from the wine you gave us.

Proverbs 10:22

It is the Lord’s blessing that brings wealth, and no effort can substitute for it.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

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

Ecclesiastes 4:8

those all alone with no companion, with neither child nor sibling—with no end to all their toil, and no satisfaction from riches. For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good things? This also is vanity and a bad business.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

This is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by their owners to their own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is never satisfied.

Jeremiah 31:26

At this I awoke and opened my eyes; my sleep was satisfying.

Ezekiel 34:25

I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the country of wild beasts so they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.