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    Psalm 127 is the 127th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Except the Lord build the house". In Latin, it is...
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    verses). A chiastic structure is seen by many in these Psalms with Psalm 127 a Psalm of Solomon as center. Preceded and succeeded by seven Psalms of ascent...
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    Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 127. In Latin, it is known as "Beati omnes qui timent Dominum". The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish...
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  • planning, and sterilization reversal. The movement derives its name from Psalm 127:3–5, where many children are metaphorically referred to as the arrows...
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    the phrase "fruit of the womb", which can be traced back to the Bible (Psalm 127:3). In 1871, just one year after the first trademark laws were passed...
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  • Nisi Dominus (Vivaldi) (category Psalm settings)
    Nisi Dominus, RV 608, is a musical setting by Antonio Vivaldi of Psalm 127 (Vulgate 126), intended for Vespers. His score, written c. 1715, calls for...
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  • this, the Litany of the Saints is said, followed by an antiphon and Psalm 126 (Psalm 127 in the Hebrew numbering), which appropriately begins with the verse...
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    Benedict of 530, this Psalm was assigned to the Office of none from Tuesday until Saturday, and following Psalm 127 and Psalm 128. Currently, in the...
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    dynasties established by the five sons of Mayer Rothschild, in a reference to Psalm 127: "Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, so are the children of one's...
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    rediscoveries of works by Vivaldi include two psalm settings: Psalm 127, Nisi Dominus RV 803 (in eight movements); and Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus RV 807 (in eleven...
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    Vespro della Beata Vergine (category Psalm settings)
    one" in unison. The vocal lines are highly ornamented. The fourth psalm, Psalm 127, opens with the words Nisi Dominus (Except the Lord [build the house])...
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    Psalms (redirect from Psalm)
    Psalm 14 = 53, Psalm 70 = 40:14–18. Other such duplicated portions of psalms are Psalm 108:2–6 = Psalm 57:8–12; Psalm 108:7–14 = Psalm 60:7–14; Psalm...
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    'physical effort' (cf. Ecclesiastes 2:4–8; Psalm 127:1) or to 'mental and emotional heaviness' (cf. Ecclesiastes 2:3; Psalm 25:18). Verse 9 contains the well-known...
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  • Nisi Dominus (Handel) (category Psalm settings)
    text of Psalm 127 (Vulgate 126) by George Friederic Handel. The name of the piece comes from the first two words (the incipit) of the psalm, and it is...
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  • in vain That is, "everything is in vain without God". Summarized from Psalm 127 (126 Vulgate), nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum in vanum laboraverunt...
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    in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1898–1955. The abbreviated Latin motto is from Psalm 127:"Except the Lord buildeth the house, they labour in vain that build it...
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  • clear, rather than directly translating the wording. For example, compare Psalm 127:1 in the (much more literal) New International Version: Unless the LORD...
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    Dominus Frustra ("Without the Lord, everything is in vain" - adapted from Psalm 127) Religious affiliation(s) Methodist Established 1 May 1876; 148 years...
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    along the string course above the first floor spelling out the text from Psalm 127:1, "Nisi Dominus aedificat domum…" ("Except the Lord build the house,...
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    the Dirshu Siyum Hashas. In 2013, they performed an acapella version of Psalm 127:1, titled Im Hashem Lo Yivneh Bayis at a bar mitzvah, which went viral...
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  • that is often bound with the later Odes) follow, until the beginning of Psalm 17:38 and the end of the manuscript has been lost. However, the Harris manuscript...
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    and Nisi Dominus Frustra, Latin for "unless God, then in vain" (from Psalm 127). According to one scholar, the two mottos "served as rallying cries in...
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    frustra (Except the Lord [keep the city, the watchman waketh] in vain. Psalm 127) Falkirk: Scots: Touch Ane, Touch Aw – Better meddle wi the Deil than...
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    attendant. A plaque in the lantern-room is inscribed with a verse from Psalm 127: Except the Lord Build the house They labour in vain that build it Except...
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  • Among the Scripture included in the book are the following lines from Psalm 127:3–5: Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a...
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    movement. "I fear the Satmars were right", he said, and quoted a verse from Psalm 127: "Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders toil on it in vain." Aumann...
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    with the motto, Nisi Dominus aedificet Frustra, a shortened version of Psalm 127, verse 1: Without the Lord, he builds in vain, which, slightly altered...
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    translated from the Latin as "without the Lord, all is in vain", taken from Psalm 127: "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it"...
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    melodies, Mahler Symphony No. 2 with Seiji Ozawa, Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus (Psalm 127) and Schubert's Winterreise for Calliope, Michel Lambert's Leçons de ténèbres...
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    Minton encaustic tiles in intricate patterns and includes a passage from Psalm 127 written in Latin, which translates as follows: "Except the Lord build...
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