A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain.

It is vain for you to rise early; you rise up after resting, you that eat the bread of grief; while He gives sleep to His beloved.

[A Psalm] of David concerning Goliath. Blessed [be] the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, [and] my fingers for war.

The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; it enriches him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it.

And she knew not that I gave her her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold [images] for Baal.

But because the Lord has loved you, and He is keeping the oath which He swore to your fathers; the Lord has brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord has redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

And it shall come to pass when you shall have heard these statutes, and have kept and done them, that the Lord your God shall keep for you the covenant and the mercy, which He swore to your fathers.