Psalms 127:2

²It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.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