Psalm 127

Without God, building, guarding, and long hours of anxious work are "in vain." God gives sleep to His beloved. The psalm is credited to Solomon, whose God-given name was Jedidiah, "beloved of the LORD" (2 Samuel 12:25). It speaks right to burnout and the feeling that everything depends on me.

"In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved." (Psalm 127:2)

Versions/Hebrew: In 127:2, "His beloved" is lididow [3039], from yedid, the root of Solomon's name Jedidiah. "Toiling" is "the bread of ha'atsavim" [6089], painful toil (KJV "bread of sorrows," YLT "bread of griefs"). I checked in OSHB that the same noun etsev [6089] appears in Genesis 3:16 (the pain of the curse) and in Proverbs 10:22 ("He adds no sorrow to it"). God's gift of sleep answers the curse's anxious toil.