Psalm 127 "Unless the LORD builds up the house its builders toil in vain" To: Wiltshire. Sing Psalms

Psalm 127 "Unless the LORD builds up the house, its builders toil in vain"
Tune: Wiltshire
Falkirk Free Church
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as one-to-one correspondences.
images:
Cain building a city which he named after his son. He was a restless wanderer. He would toil in vain because the ground, which received his brothers blood, would not provide food for him. (Genesis 4)
Adam toiling, and Eve rising early and late to feed her children (Genesis 3-4)
David's son Jedidiah sleeping and dreaming at Gibeon after he had finished building the temple and the royal palace. (2 Samuel 12: 24-25 & 1 Kings 9)
Histoire Sainte - Building work
Building including Shallum and his daughters (Nehemiah 3:12)
William Brassey Hole - The court of Solomon's son Rehoboam (1 Kings 12)

There's a Sinclair Ferguson sermon from St Peter's, Dundee on this psalm here:
https://stpeters-dundee.sermon.net/main/main/20127024

PSALM 127 C.M.

1 Unless the LORD builds up the house,
its builders toil in vain;
Unless he keeps the city safe,
they vainly watch maintain.

2 In vain you rise before the dawn
and late hours vainly keep
That you may toil for food to eat—
he gives his loved ones sleep.

3 Sons are a precious heritage,
a blessing from the LORD;
The children that are born to us
are truly his reward.

4 Like arrows in a warrior’s hand
are children of one’s youth.
5 The man whose quiver’s full of them
is blessed by God in truth.

Such men will not be put to shame—
that will not be their fate—
When they contend against their foes
who face them in the gate.