Psalm 127
God’s gifts to human beings
Keep God in the loop
Road trip song of Solomon[1]
1 If you build a house without the LORD’s help,You’re building the house for nothing.
If you guard a city without the LORD’s help,
Your guard might as well take a nap.
2 What a waste for you to get up early
And work into the night for food.
God gives that to the people he loves,
And he does it while they sleep.[2]
God’s naked gifts
3 Look, kids are gifts from the LORD.They are fruit of the flesh,[3] your divine reward.
4 Children born to you when you’re young
Are like arrows in an archer’s hand.
5 That archer is one happy fellow
When his quiver is full.
Enemies don’t stand a chance
When your kids have your back.
Notes
1127:1
The subtitle wasn’t part of the original psalm. And the possible byline “of Solomon,” isn’t necessarily a byline. Psalms 120-134 are called songs of ascent, possibly because Jewish pilgrims sang these songs while traveling up into the Judean hills to celebrate a Jewish holiday in Jerusalem.
2127:2
Crops grow day and night. So do livestock, which taste good barbecued.
3127:3
Literally “fruit of the womb.”
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