The Bread of Anxious Toil: Psalm 127 (Part 2)

Unless the Lord builds the house,
    those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
    the watchman stays awake in vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early
    and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil.
Psalm 127:1-2a

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Unless the Maker makes the house, the builders build in vain;
They babble on about their plans to build a better name
By building Babel to the Sky (foreseeing not a tongue-tied cry),
A blueprint for a Holy War, a kingdom shaken to its core
By Him whose Name will not be mocked by bread of anxious toil.