Psalm 127

¹Unless Jehovah build the house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah keep the city, the keeper watcheth in vain:

²It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.

³Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward.

⁴As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

⁵Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.