 | Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 570 pages
...the keepers of the walls took away my veil. Ibid. chap. v. ver. 7. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watoheth but in vain. Psalm cxxvii. ver. 1. Athens, and other cities of Greece, had at least... | |
 | Ann Taylor - Child rearing - 1818 - 194 pages
...Him who has all events at His disposal. " Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain who build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."— It happens not unfrequently, that after parents have past the prime of their days in circumstances of... | |
 | Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin) - Families - 1818 - 202 pages
...who has all events at His disposal. " Except the Lord build the house, they la- " hour in vain who build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." — It happens not unfrequently, that after parents have past the prime of their days in circumstances of... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 576 pages
...Jerusalem, the temple, and the people of Israel, were in old time. 1 . 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. In every undertaking, *he blessing of God must accompany the labours 'of... | |
 | William Barlass, Peter Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 688 pages
...Without his arm all endeavours to build the work would be in vain. " Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain." The presence and power of his almighty arm is sometimes more, and sometimes... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - 1910 - 1018 pages
...love of Him, all that is not He," and remembering that unless " the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it, except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." The Answers to these Queries are the outward expression of our inward... | |
 | Art - 1820 - 158 pages
...make us thrive : for, as the Royal Psalmist has excellently told us, 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. So it is in this case, Except the Lord give a blessing to our endeavours,... | |
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...will be fruitless without the favor of the Almighty. " Except the Lord build the house : they 24 labor in vain that build it : except the Lord keep the City, the watchmen waketh but in vain." It was a conviction of his entire dependence on God for prosperity, which... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 302 pages
...glorious undertaking, and perfect all that concerneth you. "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." May you feel a sense of your dependence on him, a submission to his government... | |
 | Peace - 1821 - 388 pages
...from War, we must look to a far superior power, recollecting that ' Except th« Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.' The actions of man are indeed impotent ; though he spread devastation... | |
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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. 
