If The Lord Does Not Build

C      G              E7      Am7-Am7/G
If the Lord does not build a house,

        D/F#                   G
Then in vain does the builders labor.

                                C        Am –  Am/G
And in vain does the watchman stand his guard.

       D/F#                     Esus4/B           Am                   G
If the Lord          is not his help,      If the Lord      is not his help.


   C        Am7         G-E7                            Am-Am7/G
1. If a man wants to boast,        let him boast on the Lord.

          Dm                   Gm    A
   In the Lord who is kind and merciful

   Gm     Em         A/A7-D-D7
   who forgives our sin.


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2. Who is man to compare with the Lord who is God?
   What is man that the Lord should care?
   Or that God should be moved?


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3. Put not your faith in man,  Whose life must fade like the
   fields. From the earth he is born and to earth returns.
   Put your trust in the Lord.


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