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Hymn 96
Unless the Lord Shall Build the House
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Verse 1
Unless the Lord shall build the house,
the weary builders toil in vain;
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Unless the Lord the city shields,
the guards maintain a useless watch.
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In vain you rise ere morning break,
and late your nightly vigils keep,
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And bread of anxious care partake;
God gives to His beloved sleep.
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Verse 2
Lo, children are the gift of God,
and sons the blessing He commands;
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These whom in youthful days bestowed,
are like the shafts in warriors’ hands.
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And happy they whose quivers bear full store of arrows
such as these;
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They in the gate are free from fear,
and boldly face their enemies.
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Last Verse
That man is blest who fears the Lord, who lives and walks
in all His ways;
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For of his labor shall he eat,
and he shall prosper all his days.
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His wife shall be a fruitful vine;
his children all like olive plants.
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Behold the man who fears the Lord!
To him His blessing will afford.
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