Psalms 127:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

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  • Ps 4:8 : 8 I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.
  • Eccl 5:12 : 12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.) 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
  • Ps 60:5 : 5 So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
  • Prov 31:15-18 : 15 She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls. 16 After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work. 17 She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong. 18 She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
  • Eccl 2:1-9 : 1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose. 2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it? 3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life. 4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens. 5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts. 6 I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees. 7 I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me. 8 I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides. 9 And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me. 10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward. 11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 2:20-23 : 20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun. 21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil. 22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun? 23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
  • Eccl 6:7 : 7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
  • Jer 31:26 : 26 At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
  • Ezek 34:25 : 25 And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life. 18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food; 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Job 11:18 : 18 And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;
  • Ps 3:5 : 5 I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.
  • Acts 12:5-6 : 5 So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him. 6 And when Herod was about to take him out, the same night Peter was sleeping in chains between two armed men, and the watchmen were keeping watch before the door of the prison.

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  • Prov 6:9-10
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  • Prov 24:33
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  • Eccl 2:21-26
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    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

    24There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

    25Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

    26To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

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  • Ps 132:3-4
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  • Jer 31:26
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    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Ps 127:3
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  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • Prov 4:16
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  • Job 14:12
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  • Ps 128:2
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  • Eccl 8:16
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  • Isa 28:20
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  • Job 7:4
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  • Job 4:13
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  • Eccl 4:6
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  • Eccl 6:7
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    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

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  • Heb 4:10
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  • Eccl 1:3
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  • Prov 31:27
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  • Hab 2:13
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  • Ps 6:6
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  • Prov 28:19
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  • Prov 22:27
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