I lie down and sleep;(A)
    I wake again,(B) because the Lord sustains me.

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I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.

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In peace(A) I will lie down and sleep,(B)
    for you alone, Lord,
    make me dwell in safety.(C)

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I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

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In vain you rise early
    and stay up late,
toiling for food(A) to eat—
    for he grants sleep(B) to[a] those he loves.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 127:2 Or eat— / for while they sleep he provides for

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
    whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
    permits them no sleep.(A)

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12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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