Psalms 127:2

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Excepte the LORDE kepe the cite, the watchman waketh but in vayne.

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  • Ps 4:8 : 8 Therfore wil I laye me downe in peace, & take my rest: for thou LORDE only settest me in a sure dwellynge.
  • Eccl 5:12 : 12 A labouringe man slepeth swetely, whether it be litle or moch that he eateth: but the abundaunce of the riche wil not suffre him to slepe.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 LORDE, let me knowe myne ende, and the nombre of my dayes: that I maye be certified what I wante. 6 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?
  • Ps 60:5 : 5 Sela. That thy beloued might be delyuered, helpe them with thy right hande, and heare me.
  • Prov 31:15-18 : 15 She is vp in ye night season, to prouyde meate for hir housholde, & foode for hir maydens. 16 She considreth lode, & byeth it, and wt the frute of hir handes she planteth a vynyarde. 17 She gyrdeth hir loynes with strength, and courageth hir armes. 18 And yf she perceaue that hir houswifrie doth good, hir candle goeth not out by night.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 Thus I haue considered all the thinges that come to passe vnder the Sone, & lo, they are all but vanite & vexacion of mynde.
  • Eccl 2:1-9 : 1 The sayde I thus in my hert: Now go to, I wil take myne ease & haue good dayes. But lo, that was vanite also: 2 in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter: thou art madd, and to myrth: what doest thou? 3 So I thought in my herte, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to applye my mynde vnto wy?dome, and to comprehede foolishnes vntill the tyme that (amonge all ye thinges which are vnder ye Sonne) I might se what were best for men to do, so longe as they lyue vnder heauen. 4 I made gorgious fayre workes, I buylded me houses, and planted vynyardes: 5 I made me ortchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner frutes. 6 I made poles of water, to water ye grene and frutefull trees withall. 7 I bought seruauntes and maydes, and had a greate housholde. As for catell and shepe, I had more substaunce of them, then all they yt were before me in Ierusalem. 8 I gathered syluer & golde together, euen a treasure of kynges & londes. I prouided me syngers and wome which coude playe of instrumentes, to make men myrth and pastime. I gat me drynkynge cuppes also and glasses. 9 (Shortly) I was greater & in more worshipe, then all my predecessours in Ierusale. For wy?dome remayned with me: 10 & loke what so euer myne eyes desyred, I let them haue it: & wherin so euer my herte delyted or had eny pleasure, I with helde it not fro it. Thus my hert reioysed in all yt I dyd, and this I toke for the porcion of all my trauayle. 11 But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.
  • Eccl 2:20-23 : 20 So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all soch trauayle, as I toke vnder the Sonne: 21 for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery. 22 For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne, 23 but heuynesse, sorowe & disquyetnes all ye dayes of his life? In so moch that his herte can not rest in the night. Is not this also a vayne thinge?
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.
  • Eccl 6:7 : 7 All the laboure that a man taketh, is for himself, and yet his desyre is neuer fylled after his mynde.
  • Jer 31:26 : 26 When I herde this, I came agayne to myself, and mused, like as I had bene waked out of a swete slepe.
  • Ezek 34:25 : 25 Morouer, I wil make a couenaunt of peace with them, and dryue all euell beastes out of the londe: so that they maye dwell safely in the wildernesse, and slepe in the woddes.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life. 18 Thornes and thistles shalt it beare vnto the, and thou shalt eate the herbes of the felde. 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.
  • Job 11:18 : 18 Then mightest thou haue comforth, in the hope that thou hast: & slepe quyetly, when thou art buried.
  • Ps 3:5 : 5 Sela I layed me downe and slepte, but I rose vp agayne, for the LORDE susteyned me.
  • Acts 12:5-6 : 5 And Peter was kepte in the preson But prayer was made without ceassinge of the congregacion, vnto God for him. 6 And whan Herode wolde haue broughte him out vnto the people, in the same nighte slepte Peter betwene two soudiers, bounde with two cheynes. And the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.

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  • Ps 127:1
    82%

    1 Excepte the LORDE buylde the house, their labour is but lost that buylde it.

  • Eccl 5:12
    78%

    12 A labouringe man slepeth swetely, whether it be litle or moch that he eateth: but the abundaunce of the riche wil not suffre him to slepe.

  • Prov 20:13
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    13 Delyte not thou in slepe, lest thou come vnto pouerte: but ope thine eyes, & thou shalt haue bred ynough.

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    9 How loge wilt thou slepe, thou slogish ma? Wha wilt thou aryse out of thy slepe?

    10 Yee slepe on still a litle, slober a litle, folde thine handes together yet a litle, that thou mayest slepe:

  • Prov 24:33
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    33 Yee slepe on still a litle, slobre a litle, folde thine hodes together yet a litle:

  • Eccl 2:21-26
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    21 for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

    22 For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne,

    23 but heuynesse, sorowe & disquyetnes all ye dayes of his life? In so moch that his herte can not rest in the night. Is not this also a vayne thinge?

    24 Is it not better then for a ma to eate and drynke, and his soule to be mery in his laboure? Yee I sawe that this also was a gifte of God:

    25 For who maye eate, drynke, or brynge eny thige to passe without him? And why?

    26 he geueth vnto ma, what it pleaseth him: whether it be wy?dome. vnderstondinge, or gladnesse. But vnto the synner he geueth weerynes and sorow, that he maye gather and heape together ye thinge, yt afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vayne thinge, yee a very disquietnesse and vexacio of mynde.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15 Slouthfulnes bryngeth slepe, & an ydell soule shal suffer hoger.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4 let not thyne eyes slepe, ner thine eye lyddes slomber.

  • Ps 132:3-4
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    3 I wil not come within the tabernacle of my house, ner clymme vp i to my bedde.

    4 I wil not suffre myne eyes to slepe, ner myne eye lyddes to slober.

  • Jer 31:26
    72%

    26 When I herde this, I came agayne to myself, and mused, like as I had bene waked out of a swete slepe.

  • Ps 127:3
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    3 It is but lost labour that ye ryse vp early, and take no rest, but eate the bred of carefulnesse: for loke to whom it pleaseth him, he geueth it in slepe.

  • Job 33:15
    71%

    15 In dreames and visions of the night season (when slombrynge cometh vpo me, that they fall a slepe in their beddes)

  • Prov 4:16
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    16 For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.

  • Job 14:12
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    12 but when man slepeth, he ryseth not agayne, vntill the heauen perish: he shal not wake vp ner ryse out of his slepe.

  • Ps 128:2
    71%

    2 For thou shalt eate the laboures of thine owne hondes: o well is the, happie art thou.

  • Prov 3:24
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    24 Yf thou slepest, thou shalt not be afrayed, but shalt take thy rest & slepe swetely.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16 When I applied my mynde to lerne wy?dome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde (and that of soch a fashion, yt I suffred not myne eyes to slepe nether daye ner night)

  • Isa 28:20
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    20 For ye bedde shalbe so narow yt a ma ca not lye vpon it. And the coueringe to small, that a ma maye not wynde him self therin.

  • Job 7:4
    70%

    4 When I layed me downe to slepe, I sayde: O when shal I ryse? Agayne, I longed sore for the night. Thus am I full off sorowe, till it be darcke.

  • Job 4:13
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    13 with a vision in the night, when men are fallen a slepe.

  • Eccl 4:6
    70%

    6 One handfull (saieth he) is better wt rest, the both ye handes full with labor and trauayle.

  • Eccl 3:9
    69%

    9 What hath a ma els (that doth eny thinge) but weerynesse and laboure?

  • Job 3:17
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    17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyranny, there soch as are ouerlaboured, be at rest:

  • Ps 104:23
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    23 Then goeth man forth to his worke, and to till his londe vntill the euenynge.

  • Prov 23:4
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    4 Take not ouer greate trauayle and labor to be riche, bewarre of soch a purpose.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11 Wo be vnto them that ryse vp early to vse them selues in dronkynnes, and yet at night are more superfluous with wyne.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?

  • Ps 3:5
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    5 Sela I layed me downe and slepte, but I rose vp agayne, for the LORDE susteyned me.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18 Thorow slouthfulnesse the balkes fall downe, and thorow ydle hades it rayneth in at the house.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7 All the laboure that a man taketh, is for himself, and yet his desyre is neuer fylled after his mynde.

  • Ps 37:7
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    7 Holde the still in ye LORDE, and abyde pacietly vpon him: but greue not thy self at one that hath prosperite, and lyueth in abhominacion.

  • Ps 121:3-4
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    69%

    3 He will not suffre thy fote to be moued, and he yt kepeth the, slepeth not.

    4 Beholde, he that kepeth Israel, doth nether slombre ner slepe.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7 For they that slepe, slepe in the nighte: and they that be dronken, are dronken in the nighte.

  • Ps 116:7
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    7 Turne agayne then vnto thy rest (o my soule) for the LORDE hath geuen the thy desyre.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1 Wo vnto them, that ymagyn to do harme, and deuyse vngraciousnesse vpon their beddes, to perfourme it in ye cleare daye: for their power is agaynst God.

  • Heb 4:10
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    10 For he that is entred in to his rest, ceasseth from his workes, as God doth from his

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3 For what els hath a ma, of all the labor yt he taketh vnder the Sonne?

  • Prov 31:27
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    27 She loketh wel to the wayes of hir housholde, & eateth not hir bred with ydilnes.

  • Hab 2:13
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    13 Shal not the LORDE of hoostes bringe this to passe, that the laboures of the people shal be brent with a greate fyre, and that the thinge wher vpon the people haue weeried them selues, shall be lost?

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    6 I am weery of gronynge: Euery night wasshe I my bedde, & water my couche with my teares.

  • Prov 28:19
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    19 He yt tylleth his londe, shal haue plenteousnesse of bred: but he that foloweth ydilnesse, shal haue pouerte ynough.

  • Prov 22:27
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    27 for yf thou hast nothinge to paye, they shal take awaye thy bed from vnder the.