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Psalm 127
Except Yahweh builds the house,
They labor in vain that build it:
Except Yahweh keeps the city,
The watchman awakes but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early,
To take rest late,
To eat the bread of toil;
For so he gives to his beloved sleep.
3 Lo, children are a heritage of Yahweh;
And the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
So are the children of youth.
5 Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them:
They shall not be put to shame,
When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
A Song of Ascents.
Psalm 128
Blessed is every one that fears Yahweh,
That walks in his ways.
2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands:
Happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine,
In the innermost parts of your house;
Your children like olive plants,
Around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
That fears Yahweh.
5 Yahweh shall bless you out of Zion:
And you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
6 Yes, you shall see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel.
A Song of Ascents.
Psalm 129
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,
Let Israel now say,
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back;
They made long their furrows.
4 Yahweh is righteous:
He has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward,
All they that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;
7 With which the reaper fills not his hand,
Nor he that binds sheaves his bosom:
8 Neither do they that go by say,
The blessing of Yahweh be upon you;
We bless you in the name of Yahweh.
A Song of Ascents.
