 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...trust in their own wisdom and strength, all their toil is vain. " 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." For a Parent especially, in such a case, " it is vain for him to rise... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 pages
...trust in their own wisdom and strength, all their toil is vain. " 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." For a Parent especially, in such a case, " it is vain for him to rise... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.'' Or this, " Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the ,watchman watcheth but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread... | |
 | American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1827 - 400 pages
...measures of this Society, to Him who sitttth as King among the nations. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain. ABSALOM PETERS, Cor. Sec. PETER HA WES, Treasurer. STEPHEN LOCKWOOO, Recording... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Sermons, English - 1827 - 666 pages
...according to our wishes, he is there. He influenceth prosperity. ' Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in viiin. It is in vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) - Quakers - 1870 - 580 pages
...could do, and urged to ask help from the highest source. " Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the watch man waketh but in vain." We are constrained to acknowledge that during the sittings of this,... | |
 | Erastus Worthington - Dedham (Mass.) - 1827 - 606 pages
...reasoning of Paul, or the eloquence of Appollos, accomplish! "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." It becomes then a deeply interesting question, — what must a church... | |
 | George Charles Smith - Sailors - 1828 - 152 pages
...our speculations, and all our buildings, and work in the world. " 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 divine blessings, and his all-gracious protection, the word... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 520 pages
...given. Without this blessing, all human efforts will be to no purpose. Except the Lord build the house,' they labour in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain. It will be in vain to rise up early, and sit up late, and eat the bread of... | |
 | Catechisms - 1828 - 160 pages
...man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. Ps. xxxvii. 16. 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. 1,2. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not... | |
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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. 
