Psalms 127:2

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

Cross References (16)

  • Ecclesiastes 5:12 (24)

    The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep

  • Psalms 4:8 (21)

    I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

  • Job 11:18 (17)

    You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.

  • Psalms 3:5 (15)

    I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:20–23 (9)

    So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

  • Jeremiah 31:26 (9)

    At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:14 (8)

    I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

  • Ezekiel 34:25 (8)

    I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilde

  • Proverbs 31:15–18 (7)

    She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:8 (4)

    There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not

  • Psalms 39:5–6 (4)

    You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists

  • Ecclesiastes 6:7 (4)

    All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:1–11 (3)

    I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

  • Psalms 60:5 (3)

    Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

  • Acts 12:5–6 (1)

    So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

  • Genesis 3:17–19 (-1)

    And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I comman