สดุดี 127:1
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.
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Study Note
The proverbial wisdom of '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' subordinates every human enterprise to divine enabling, making the entire poem a meditation on the creatureliness of human striving. A psalm of Solomon (according to its superscription), it has been linked to the temple-building project, suggesting that even the most sacred human endeavor depends on divine initiative. The verse has been applied in Christian tradition to marriage (127:3-5 follows with the gift of children), family life, pastoral ministry, and every sphere of human activity as a warning against self-sufficient activism. The reformers used the verse to ground their rejection of 'works-righteousness' in the sphere of human achievement before God, extending the psalm's logic from practical spheres to soteriological ones.
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Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.
A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.
If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
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Now, my son, the Lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, …
Take heed now; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do …
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be …
And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to …
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.