The Book of Psalms

[A Song of Ascents, for Solomon.] If Jehovah does not build the house, they who build it labor in vain; if Jehovah does not keep the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

[It is] in vain for you to rise early, sit up late, to eat the bread of toils; [for] so He gives His beloved sleep.

Behold! Children [are] an inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb [is His] reward.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so [are] the sons of the young.

Blessed [is] the man who has filled his quiver with them; they shall not be ashamed, for they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.