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 the city.

(d) Either that which is gained by hard labour, or eaten with grief of mind.

(e) Not exempting them from labour, but making their labours comfortable and as it were a rest.Psalm 127:2 Parallel Commentaries

Or are we Indeed to Believe that it is for any Other Reason...
41. Or are we indeed to believe that it is for any other reason, that God suffers to be mixed up with the number of your profession, many, both men and women, about to fall, than that by the fall of these your fear may be increased, whereby to repress pride; which God so hates, as that against this one thing The Highest humbled Himself? Unless haply, in truth, thou shalt therefore fear less, and be more puffed up, so as to love little Him, Who hath loved thee so much, as to give up Himself for thee, …
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He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. I t is not easy for those, whose habits of life are insensibly formed by the customs of modern times, to conceive any adequate idea of the pastoral life, as obtained in the eastern countries, before that simplicity of manners, which characterized the early ages, was corrupted, by the artificial and false refinements of luxury. Wealth, in those …
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