Psalms 127:2

²It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.b

Psalm 127 is a wisdom psalm attributed to Solomon that confronts the futility of human effort apart from divine blessing. It opens with the famous image of building a house and watching a city — work that is meaningless unless the Lord is its foundation. The psalm then pivots to the