Trembling seized them there,
agony like that of a woman in labor,

He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.

He broke their spirits with hard labor;
they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.