A song of ascents for Solomon
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📚✭✭Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labour
in vain.
Unless the LORD guards
the city,
the watchman stays awake
in vain.
2 📚✭It is in vain for you
to rise up early,
to sit up late,
to eat the bread of sorrows;
for he gives his beloved
sleep✭.
3 📚✭See, children are a
heritage from the LORD,
and the fruit
of the womb is his
reward.
4 📚✭Like arrows in the hand
of a mighty man,
so are the children
of one’s youth.
5 📚Happy is the man
who has his quiver full
of them.
They will not be ashamed,
but will speak with their
enemies in the gate.