 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
 | Thomas Ward - Bible - 1824 - 120 pages
...Verse S. Wo is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dweH in the tents of Kedar. Psalm cxxvii. Verse 2. It is in vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrow. Psalm cxix. Verse 83. As a " skin-bottle" in the smoak, So am I parch'd and... | |
 | Jesse Fonda - Baptism - 1824 - 382 pages
...labour in vain that build it. Except the Lord krep 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. The wisest course therefore is to... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 572 pages
...but the grace of God which was with me, 1 Cor. xv. 10. 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... | |
 | Church of England - 1825 - 432 pages
...end. Amen. Or, Psalm cxxvii. Nisi Dominus. EXCEPT the Lord build the house : their labour is but lost that build it. Except the Lord keep the city : the watchman waketh but in vain. It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...degrees for Solomon. A Song of gaingt up for Solomon. 1. 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. 2. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...labour in rain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2 It it ά 0 eat the bread of sorrows : fir so he giveth his beloved sleep. 3 Lo, children are an heritage of the... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...their own wisdom and strength, all their toil is vain. " 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." For a Parent especially, in such a case, " it is vain for him to rise... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
...allgracious, ever-vigilant, Almighty Deliverer, as set forth by the Psalmist in his 127th Psalm, " It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows [in vain for you to tug and toil without Him •who " builds the house and... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...CXXVI1. Tí A Song of degree» for Solomon. I ' "C'XCBPT the LORD build the Mia house, they labour f five hundred, botíi of the persons, and of the beeves, walclimau waketh tut in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...vain •f that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watch- J man waketh but in vain. 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. 3 Lo, children are an heritage of the... | |
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