Psalm 127:2 - King James 2000

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: For so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of [anxious] toil–for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep.

American Standard Version (1901)

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; For so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Common English Bible

It is pointless that you get up early and stay up late, eating the bread of hard labor because God gives sleep to those he loves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you will eat by the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it will be well with you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Psalm 127:2 Tagairtí Cros

Job 11:18

And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig about you, and take your rest in safety.

Psalm 3:5

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

Psalm 4:8

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 60:5

That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.

Proverbs 10:22

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

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

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

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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

Jeremiah 31:26

Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

Ezekiel 34:25

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