Psalm 127:1 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹ Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

Psalm 127:1 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 5:12

The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised him. There were peaceful relations between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

1 Chronicles 28:10

Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.’

1 Chronicles 28:20

David also said to Solomon his son, ‘Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the Lord is finished.

1 Chronicles 29:19

And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands, statutes and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure for which I have provided.’

Psalm 120:1

I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me.

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the mountains – where does my help come from?

Psalm 122:1

I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’

Psalm 123:1

I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.

Psalm 124:1

If the Lord had not been on our side – let Israel say –

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures for ever.

Psalm 126:1

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.

Psalm 72:1

Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness.

Psalm 78:69

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established for ever.

Proverbs 16:9

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favour to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Song of Solomon 3:3

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. ‘Have you seen the one my heart loves?’

Song of Solomon 5:7

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!

Isaiah 27:3

I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no-one may harm it.

Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.

Isaiah 62:6

I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest,

Jeremiah 51:12

Lift up a banner against the walls of Babylon! Reinforce the guard, station the watchmen, prepare an ambush! The Lord will carry out his purpose, his decree against the people of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:31

One courier follows another and messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured,

1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

Galatians 4:11

I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

Joshua 2:2

The king of Jericho was told, ‘Look, some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.’