Unless You Build

© Oh Sparrow Music 2025.

VERSE 1

Unless you build the house, I build in vain.
Unless you’re with me now, my spirit wanes.
I need a voice to ring out across the plains:
“The Lord will build the house.”

VERSE 2

Have I been eating bread of anxious toil?
Will you anoint my head with precious oil?
And will you plant what you’ve said in fertile soil
And on it build your house?

CHORUS

You give your beloved sleep,
Your beloved sleep.
You give your beloved sleep
In your house.

VERSE 3

You have delivered me from all my fears,
Now give me faith to see that you are near.
Your very presence in me, Lord, I believe:
In me you’ve built your house,
In me you’ve built your house.

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REFLECTION

Psalm 127:1–2 — “Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.”

Matthew 11:28–29 — “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”