Psalms 127:1

Unless Yahweh builds and guards, human effort is futile. It teaches utter dependence on God for any work or security to succeed.

Cross-references · 32

• Prov 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
• 1 Cor 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
• Prov 21:30–31There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
• 1 Cor 3:9–15For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• Ps 33:16–18There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
• Ps 121:3–5He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
• Ps 124:1A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
• 1 Chr 28:10Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
• Isa 62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
• 1 Chr 28:20David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
• Jer 51:12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
• 1 Cor 15:14If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
• Ps 121:1A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
• Ps 123:1A Song of Ascents. To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
• Ps 120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
• Eccl 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
• Ps 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
• Ps 78:69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
• Ps 126:1A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
• 1 Chr 22:10–11He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.’
• Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Ps 122:1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
• Zech 2:4–5and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
• Isa 27:3I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
• Isa 21:5–12They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
• 1 Chr 29:19and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
• Gal 4:11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
• Ezek 33:2–9Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
• Song 3:3The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
• Jer 51:31One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
• Song 5:7The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
• Ps 72:1By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

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