Psalm 127:2
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
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.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
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.
Topics Sleep
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- vain
- Psalm 39:5, 6; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:1–11, 20–23; Ecclesiastes 4:8
- rise up
- Proverbs 31:15–18
- the bread
- Genesis 3:17–19; Ecclesiastes 6:7
- for so he
- Psalm 3:5; Psalm 4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:12; Jeremiah 31:26; Ezekiel 34:25; Acts 12:5, 6