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            <div class="label">127</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 127</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents. Of Solomon.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.127.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Unless the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> builds the house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.127.1"><span class="content">the builders labor in vain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.127.1"><span class="content">Unless the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> watches over the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.127.1"><span class="content">the guards stand watch in vain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.127.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.127.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In vain you rise early</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.127.2"><span class="content">and stay up late,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.127.2"><span class="content">toiling for food to eat&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.127.2"><span class="content">for he grants sleep to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">127:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">eat&#8212; / for while they sleep he provides for</span></span></span><span class="content"> those he loves.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.127.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.127.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.127.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Children are a heritage from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.127.3"><span class="content">offspring a reward from him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.127.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.127.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Like arrows in the hands of a warrior</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.127.4"><span class="content">are children born in one&#8217;s youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.127.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.127.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Blessed is the man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.127.5"><span class="content">whose quiver is full of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.127.5"><span class="content">They will not be put to shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.127.5"><span class="content">when they contend with their opponents in court.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As people moved eastward,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from the east</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in the east</span></span></span><span class="content"> they found a plain in Shinar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, Babylonia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and settled there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.11.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They said to each other, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.&#8221; They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then they said, &#8220;Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.11.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.11.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">That is why it was called Babel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, Babylon; </span><span class="fq">Babel </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">confused</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;because there the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> confused the language of the whole world. From there the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> scattered them over the face of the whole earth.</span></span></div>
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