Psalm 127:1

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Prosperity Comes from the Lord.

A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.

127 Unless the Lord ^(A)builds a house,
They who build it labor in vain;
Unless the Lord ^(B)guards a city,
The watchman stays awake in vain.

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Isaiah 17:10-11

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¹⁰For ^(A)you have forgotten the ^(B)God of your salvation
And have not remembered the ^(C)rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.
¹¹On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the ^(D)morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will ^(E)flee
On a day of illness and incurable pain.

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Isaiah 49:4

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⁴But I said, “I have ^(A)labored in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and futility;
Nevertheless, the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My ^(B)reward is with My God.”

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Jeremiah 12:13

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¹³They have ^(A)sown wheat but have harvested thorns,
They have ^(B)strained themselves ^[a]to no profit.
So be ashamed of your ^(C)produce
Because of the ^(D)fierce anger of the Lord.”