Psalms 127:2 Cross References

Psalms 127:2

2: It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

  1. People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich are always worrying and seldom get a good night's sleep.

Psalms 4:8

  1. I will lie down in peace and sleep, for you alone, O LORD, will keep me safe.

Job 11:18

  1. You will have courage because you will have hope. You will be protected and will rest in safety.

Jeremiah 31:26

  1. At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.

Psalms 3:5

  1. I lay down and slept. I woke up in safety, for the LORD was watching over me.

Ezekiel 34:25

  1. "I will make a covenant of peace with them and drive away the dangerous animals from the land. Then my people will be able to camp safely in the wildest places and sleep in the woods without fear.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

  1. So I turned in despair from hard work. It was not the answer to my search for satisfaction in this life.
  2. For though I do my work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, I must leave everything I gain to people who haven't worked to earn it. This is not only foolish but highly unfair.
  3. So what do people get for all their hard work?
  4. Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night they cannot rest. It is all utterly meaningless.

Acts 12:5

  1. But while Peter was in prison, the church prayed very earnestly for him.
  2. The night before Peter was to be placed on trial, he was asleep, chained between two soldiers, with others standing guard at the prison gate.

Proverbs 31:15

  1. She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plan the day's work for her servant girls.
  2. She goes out to inspect a field and buys it; with her earnings she plants a vineyard.
  3. She is energetic and strong, a hard worker.
  4. She watches for bargains; her lights burn late into the night.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

  1. I said to myself, "Come now, let's give pleasure a try. Let's look for the `good things' in life." But I found that this, too, was meaningless.
  2. "It is silly to be laughing all the time," I said. "What good does it do to seek only pleasure?"
  3. After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. While still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I hoped to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.
  4. I also tried to find meaning by building huge homes for myself and by planting beautiful vineyards.
  5. I made gardens and parks, filling them with all kinds of fruit trees.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

  1. Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Genesis 3:17

  1. And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
  2. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
  3. All your life you will sweat to produce food, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from dust, and to the dust you will return."

Ecclesiastes 4:8

  1. This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.

Psalms 60:5

  1. Use your strong right arm to save us, and rescue your beloved people.

Psalms 39:5

  1. My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath."
  2. We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

  1. All people spend their lives scratching for food, but they never seem to have enough.
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