Psalm 127 - 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.

² In vain do you rise up early, To sit up late, to eat the bread of toil; So He gives His beloved sleep.

³ Look, children are an inheritance from יהוה, The fruit of the womb is the reward.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of one’s youth.

⁵ Blessed is the man Who has filled his quiver with them. They are not ashamed, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.