Psalm 127:2 - New International Version (Anglicised)

² In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat – for he grants sleep to those he loves.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² 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

² 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

² 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

You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.

Psalm 3:5

I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.

Psalm 4:8

In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 60:5

Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

there was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. ‘For whom am I toiling,’ he asked, ‘and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?’ This too is meaningless – a miserable business!

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a labourer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

Jeremiah 31:26

At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.

Ezekiel 34:25

‘ “I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beasts so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.