Psalms 127:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. ”

• Psalms 127:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  It is vain for you to rise up early - The psalmist does not here say that it is improper to rise early; or that there could be no advantage in it; or that people would be more likely to be succes...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  [It is] vain for (c) you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread (d) of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved (e) sleep. (c) Who watch and ward and are also magistrates and rulers of th...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  CXXVII. A. This Ps. is, as is now generally admitted, composed of two independent Pss. In Psalms 127 A, i.e. in Psalms 127:1 f. the Psalmist's theme is the vanity of toil without Yahweh's ble...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  For so . Thus. beloved . beloved one (singular) Hebrew. yedid. This was Solomon's name (Jedidiah) given by Jehovah ( 2 Samuel 12:25 ). Solomon was given because David was beloved of Jehovah. Som...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  2. It is vain for you in hastening to rise early. Solomon now expresses more plainly that men in vain wear themselves out with toiling, and waste themselves by fasting to acquire riches, sin...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. It is vain for you to rise up early - There seems to be here an allusion to t...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  It is vain, &c.— It is vain for you, ye that rise early, and late take rest: that eat the bread of fatigue: it is thus he giveth sleep to his beloved. Mudge: who observes, that the words, it...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  A warning against over-anxiety in any work. Let it be left in the wise hands of Jehovah, who gives the best blessings without human aid. Perhaps the Ps. was addressed to some too-zealous workers in t...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  It... sleep. — This verse, of the literal rendering of which there is no question, has met with many different interpretations. About the first clause there is no difference. Early rising, to pursu...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 127:1-5 THIS pure expression of conscious dependence on God's blessing for all well-being may possibly have special reference to the Israel of the Restoration. The instances of vain human e...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Lord Hath Done Great Things for Us” Psalms 126:1-6 ; Psalms 127:1-5 The circumstances under which this psalm was written are evident upon its face. The exiles, lately back from Babylon, a...

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• Psalms 127:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The thought of the pilgrim centres upon the city toward which his face is turned as the place of home. The strength of the Hebrew people in the past, and all that remains of it today, largely results...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Anxiety and care will never improve either by exertion, for the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Ecclesi...

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• Psalms 127:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  ‘IF HE SLEEP, HE SHALL DO WELL’ ‘So He giveth His beloved sleep.’ Psalms 127:2 We take the ‘sleep’ in our text as denoting death, and confine ourselves to an illustration of the passage under...

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• Psalms 127:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late ,.... A description of an industrious and laborious person, who takes great pains to get a livelihood, or increase his substance; see Psalms 10...

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• Psalms 127:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Psalms 127:2 [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep. Ver. 2. It is vain for you to rise up early ] Diluculantes...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  It is vain for you Builders or watch-men, or other persons engaged in any design, which to you seems important; to rise up early, to sit up late To use constant and unwearied diligence; to eat t...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Dependence on Providence; God the Giver of Prosperity. A song of degrees for Solomon.       1 Except the L ORD build the...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He directs his speech to the persons forementioned, the builders or watchmen , of both which sorts there are many that use the following course. To rise up early, to sit late ; to use constant and...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Various considerations taken together require the opinion that this middle Song of Degrees was composed by Solomon. It suits the time of peaceful house-building and civil settlement and...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 127:2 We take the "sleep" in our text as denoting death, and confine ourselves to an illustration of the passage under this one point of view. Here we have an idea which it would be well to...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 127:1-19 . Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you, to rise up early, to sit up...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  REFLECTIONS. The man who begins the world aright, must begin with God. The stately house is built in vain, and the family multiplied for wickedness, unless it be done in the Lord's counsel, and wi...

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• Psalms 127:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Except the Lord build the house. Authorship of this psalm Various considerations taken together require the opinion that this middle Song of Degrees was composed by Solomon. It suits the time o...

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• Psalms 127:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION A DIDACTIC psalm, preaching a contented trust in God as more conducive to the prosperity of a man, or a state, than any amount of fussy activity. The ascription to Solomon is borne...

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• Psalms 127:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Divine Blessing Needed for Human Enterprises. A song of degrees for Solomon, a hymn written by him probably in connection with the building of the Temple, but applicable to all similar conditi...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 12:5 ; Acts 12:6 ; Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 ; Ecclesiastes 2:20-23 ; Ecclesiastes 4:8 ; Ecclesiastes 5:12 ; Ecclesiastes 6:7 ; Ezekiel 34:25 ; Genesis 3:17-19 ; Jeremia...

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• Psalms 127:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  You — Builders, or watchmen. To sit — To use constant and unwearied diligence. So — By his blessing. Giveth — Freely, without that immoderate toiling, wherewith others pursue it.

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