 | William Jay - Christian life - 1830 - 302 pages
...all your exertions, all your expectations, without him? "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1837 - 336 pages
...accomplished. God's, promised blessing is our dependence. "Except the Ltjrd build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." If the Divine blessing be withheld, in vain are all our efforts, useless... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...turneth away wrath ; and then he has recourse to prayer. For except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. When we have arranged our plans, and secured our means, and done all that... | |
 | William Ware (of Belfast.) - 1832 - 38 pages
...and may they ever bear in lively remembrance, that " except the Lord builc/ the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Belfast, December 1831. ADDITION TO THK PROPOSED PLAN. The Legislature... | |
 | John Howe - 1832 - 548 pages
...need a constant preserver in your several dwellings ? Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh hut in vain. Psalm I'-'/- 1. A city you know is made up of so many houses inhabited;... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee. Ps. cxxii. 6. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Ps. cxxvii. 1. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Congregational churches - 1833 - 252 pages
...man, and before you glory, learn this wholesome truth : " Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Without his favour " it is in vain for you to rise up early, to sit up... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...brought down and fallen; we are risen and stand upright. 37 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman wakcth but in vain. 38 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1833 - 722 pages
...tuineth away wrath ; and then he has recourse to prayer. For except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. When we have arranged our plans, and secured our means, and done all that... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 pages
...trust in their own wisdom and strength, all their toil is vain. " Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." For a Parent especially, in such a case, " it is vain for him to rise... | |
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EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 
