Psalm 127:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} 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.

Build

They labour

1 Corinthians 15:14

Galatians 4:11

Except

Psalm 121:3

Isaiah 27:3

Zechariah 2:4

The watchman

Ezekiel 33:2

General references

Genesis 1:28

Bible References

Build

He shall build a house for my name, and he shall be my son, and I will be his father, and will establish the seat of his kingdom upon Israel forever.'

Take heed now, for the LORD hath chosen thee, to build a house of thy sanctuary. Be strong and do it."

And give unto Solomon my son, a pure heart to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies and thine ordinances, and to do all, and to build the house which I intended."

We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

They labour

If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also in vain.

I am in fear of you, lest I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

Except

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved, and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.

I the LORD keep it, and water it in due season. I watch day and night, that no man break into it.

and said unto him, 'Run, speak to this young man, and say: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without any wall, for the very multitude of people and cattle, that shall be therein:

The watchman

The watchmen that go about the city found me, to whom I said: Saw ye not him whom my soul loveth?

So the watchmen that went about the city found me, smote me, and wounded me: Yea they that kept the walls, took away my kerchief from me.

While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield."

For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

Upon the walls of Jerusalem, I have set keepers which shall never cease, neither by day nor yet by night.

Set up tokens upon the walls of Babylon, make your watch strong, set your watchmen in array, yea hold privy watches: and yet for all that shall the LORD go forth with the device, which he hath taken upon them that dwell in Babylon.

"Thou son of man, Speak to the children of thy people, and tell them, 'When I send a sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their country, and set him to be their watchman:

General references

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.