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PSALME 127. (Book 127)
A Prayer for God's blessing to go along with the temporall good things he gives us.
EXcept the Lord build the house: their labour is but lost that build it.
2 Except the Lord keep the city: the watch∣man waketh but in vain.
3 It is but lost labour that ye hast to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulnesse: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
4 Lo, children and the fruit of the wombe: are an heritage and gift that commeth of the Lord.
5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the gi∣ant: even so are the young children.
6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
The Prayer.
O Lord God, without whose blessing all our labours are vain and unprofitable, and our possessions are but bitter and unpleasant: let thy blessing be upon our labours and our substance, our children, and our dwelling, that the good things of this life may be an heritage and gift from thee, issues of thy favour, and an earnest of a greater