 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. 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.  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 83edited by - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 pages
...hour in rain that build it. Except the the Lord ketp the city, the watchman waketh but in vain, It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the .bread of sorrows. It is God who giveth his beloved sleep, Psal. cxxvii. 1,2. When our understanding... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - Election sermons - 1802 - 68 pages
...best efforts will be fruitless without the favor of the Almighty. " Except the Lord build, tjie house; they labor in vain that build it : except the Lord keep the City, the watchmen waketh but in vain." It was a conviction of his entire dependence on God for prosperity, which... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1802 - 564 pages
...temple, and the people of Ifrael, were in old time. i. Except the LORD build the houfe ; they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. In every undertaking, the bleffing of God muft accompany the labours of... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...above). .(3). Depend on him for fuccefs : Pfal. cxxvii. i. " Except the Lord build the houfe, they labour in vain that build it : Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." (4). Acquiefce in his difpofing of you as may beft fuit your fpiritual... | |
 | bp. George Heorne - Bible - 1802 - 562 pages
...temple, and the people of Ifrael, were in old time. i. Except the LORD build the houfe, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. In every undertaking, the bleffing of God muft accompany the labours of... | |
 | 1828
...their own wisdom and strength, all their toil ig vain. " Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchman wnketh but in vain." For a parent especially, in such a case, " it is vain for him to rise... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1803 - 422 pages
...succeeds according to our wishes, he is there. He influenceth prosperity. Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but. in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit jip late, to eat the bread... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Sermons - 1804 - 372 pages
...disappointed; then are we constrained to acknowledge that " 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." I now proceed to mention a Third end for which the Almighty afflicts... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...л л that build it : except the Lohn keep the city, the watch. 2 man waketh [but] in vain. [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows, to fare hard and live sparingly: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep, sound... | |
 | Samuel Barnard - Apologetics - 1806 - 336 pages
...strength, but by the strength of the Lord of Hosts: for " Except the Lord build the house, " they labour in vain, that build it; except the " Lord keep the city, the watchman Kakelh but in " vain," Psm. cxxvii. 1. Now their situation is agreeable to things in nature.... | |
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