Psalms 127

Psalms 127:1-5

The necessary dependence of all upon Jehovah. A song of the ascents: of Solomon. Thus all comes from Jehovah, and He is seen to be the sole dependence of all His creatures. It is from this that man departed in Eden; to set up in independence for himself. If he is brought back, then; it must be to this; and this is what we find in the hundred and twenty-seventh psalm. Jehovah alone is sufficient: except He build the house, the builders toil on it in vain; except He keep the city, the keeper vainly is awake. And then follows the emphatic rebuke of that anxious toil on man’s part, early and late, eating the bread of drudgery, while God gives to those beloved of Him in a way so different: they lie down and sleep, and are supplied! So with the blessing of children: they are an inheritance from Jehovah, and a reward; a portion like Abraham’s, a defence in the day of trial, and of false accusation.* This last part of the psalm leads on to the one following. \