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Unless Yahweh Builds the House

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

127 Unless Yahweh (A)builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless Yahweh (B)watches the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.

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10 For (A)you have forgotten the (B)God of your salvation
And have not remembered the (C)rock of your strong defense.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine branches of a strange god.
11 In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the (D)morning you cause your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will (E)be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

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But I said, “I have (A)toiled in vain;
I have spent My might for [a]nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,
And My (B)reward with My God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:4 Lit formlessness

13 They have (A)sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
They have (B)strained themselves [a]to no profit.
But be ashamed of your (C)produce
Because of the (D)burning anger of Yahweh.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:13 Lit they do not profit