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Themes in Psalm 127

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Themes in Psalm 127

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor uselessly. Unless the LORD guards the city, its security forces keep watch uselessly.

It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.

forbidden Anxiety » Worldly care » Forbidden
Bread » Kinds of » Bread of affliction
Care » Worldly folly of » Forbidden
Endowments » Spiritual promised » Temporal
Gifts » Presents to men spiritual » Temporal, to men
God » Spiritual promised » Temporal
The Providence of God » Man's efforts are vain without
Sleep » Of the righteous sweet
Sleep » From God
Temporal » Gifts to men
Vanity » Worldy anxiety

Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward.

Children » The gift of God
Children » Blessing
Children » Are a gift from God
Children » An heritage from the lord
Children » What children are
Home » Children » The gift of God
Parents » Receive their children from God

As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so also are children born during one's youth.

How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate. A Song of Ascents