Psalms 127:1

World English Bible (2000)

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

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  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; 13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. 14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
  • Prov 21:30-31 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh. 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.
  • Ps 33:16-18 : 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power. 18 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
  • Ps 122:1 : 1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"
  • Zech 2:4-5 : 4 and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. 5 For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
  • Isa 62:6 : 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
  • Jer 51:12 : 12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Ps 126:1 : 1 When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
  • Ps 123:1 : 1 To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
  • Ps 124:1 : 1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
  • Ps 121:1 : 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
  • Ps 121:3-5 : 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
  • Song 3:3 : 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
  • 1 Cor 15:14 : 14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
  • Ps 78:69 : 69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
  • Ps 120:1 : 1 In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
  • 1 Chr 22:10-11 : 10 He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.' 11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
  • 1 Chr 28:10 : 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."
  • 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.
  • 1 Chr 29:19 : 19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision."
  • Ps 72:1 : 1 God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
  • Ps 125:1 : 1 Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can't be moved, but remains forever.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
  • Song 5:7 : 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
  • Isa 21:5-9 : 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! 6 For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. 7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." 8 He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. 9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground. 10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you. 11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" 12 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
  • Isa 27:3 : 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Ezek 33:2-9 : 2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman; 3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 8 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
  • Jer 51:31 : 31 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

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