Psalm 127:2

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Psalm 127:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all

Job 11:18

And thou shall be secure, because there is hope. Yea, thou shall search [about thee], and shall take thy rest in safety.

Psalm 3:5

I laid down and slept. I awoke, for LORD sustains me.

Psalm 4:8

In peace I will both lay down and sleep, for thou, LORD, alone make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 39:5-6

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 60:5

That thy beloved ones may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.

Proverbs 31:15-18

She also rises while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and their task to her maidens.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:20-23

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Jeremiah 31:26

Upon this I awoke, and beheld, and my sleep was sweet to me.

Ezekiel 34:25

And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Acts 12:5-6

Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Psalm 127:2

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.

Vain

Psalm 39:5

Ecclesiastes 1:14

Ecclesiastes 2:1

Rise up

Proverbs 31:15

For so he

General references

Genesis 1:28

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Jeremiah 31:26

Bible References

Vain

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.

Rise up

She also rises while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and their task to her maidens.

For so he

I laid down and slept. I awoke, for LORD sustains me.

In peace I will both lay down and sleep, for thou, LORD, alone make me dwell in safety.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Upon this I awoke, and beheld, and my sleep was sweet to me.

And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.

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

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Upon this I awoke, and beheld, and my sleep was sweet to me.