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All Good Things Come from God

A song ·for going up to worship [of ascents; C perhaps sung while traveling to Jerusalem to celebrate an annual religious festival like Passover]. Of Solomon.

127 If the Lord doesn’t build the house,
    the builders are working ·for nothing [in vain; without purpose].
If the Lord doesn’t guard the city,
    the guards are watching ·for nothing [in vain; without purpose].
It is ·no use [in vain; without purpose] for you to get up early
    and stay up late,
·working for a living [L eating the bread of hardship/pain].
    The Lord ·gives sleep to those he loves [or provides for those he loves while they sleep].
Children are ·a gift [an inheritance] from the Lord;
    ·babies [L the fruit of the womb] are a reward.
Children ·who are born to a young man [L of one’s youth]
    are like arrows in the hand of a warrior [C they help in the challenges and conflicts of life].
·Happy [Blessed] is the man
    who has his ·bag [quiver] full of ·arrows [L them].
They will not be ·defeated [L humiliated]
    when they ·fight [L speak to] their enemies at the city gate [C the central place of commerce and government].

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