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

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 I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

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

And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace [for thee], for which I have made provision.

For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.

They labour

And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.

I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

Except

He will not allow thy foot to be moved. He who keeps thee will not slumber.

I LORD am its keeper, I will water it every moment. Lest any hurt it, I will guard it night and day.

and said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle therein.

The watchman

The watchmen who go about the city found me. [I said], Did ye see him whom my soul loves?

They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, ye rulers, anoint the shield.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest,

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon. Make the watch strong. Set the watchmen. Prepare the ambushes. For LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

Son of man, speak to the sons of thy people, and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman,

General references

And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upo