Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

New American Standard Bible

It is vain for you to rise up early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of painful labors;
For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

In vain you get up early and stay up late,
working hard to have enough food—
yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

International Standard Version

It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.

A Conservative Version

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


It is vain for you to rise early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of anxious labors—
For He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in his sleep.

Darby Translation

It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.

Julia Smith Translation

In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

King James 2000

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.

Modern King James verseion

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

It is but lost labour that ye rise up early, and take no rest, but eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

NET Bible

It is vain for you to rise early, come home late, and work so hard for your food. Yes, he can provide for those whom he loves even when they sleep.

New Heart English Bible

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.

Webster

It is vain for you to rise early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

World English Bible

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.

References

Images Psalm 127:2

Prayers for Psalm 127:2

Context Readings

The Blessing Of The Lord

1 A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked. 2 Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep. 3 Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

Genesis 3:17-19

And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

Job 11:18

And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,

Psalm 3:5

I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

Psalm 4:8

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

Psalm 39:5-6

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

Psalm 60:5

That Thy beloved ones may be drawn out, Save with Thy right hand, and answer us.

Proverbs 31:15-18

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11

I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:20-23

And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

Jeremiah 31:26

On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.

Ezekiel 34:25

And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests.

Acts 12:5-6

Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,

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