Psalms 127:1

Unless the Lord Builds the House

A Song of aAscents. Of Solomon.

1 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord bwatches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.

Isaiah 65:23

23 cThey shall not labor in vain
dor bear children for calamity,
Or  for sudden terror

for fthey shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.

Jeremiah 51:9

9We would have healed Babylon,
but she was not healed.
gForsake her, and hlet us go
each to his own country,
for iher judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.

Jeremiah 51:64

64and say, jThus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, kand they shall become exhausted.’”

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Habakkuk 2:13

13Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
that lpeoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
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