Psalms 127:3

In 11 translations

BSB

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

KJV

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

WEB

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

ASV

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; And the fruit of the womb is his reward.

LSV

Behold, sons [are] an inheritance of YHWH, || The fruit of the womb [is] a reward.

YLT

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah [are] sons, A reward [is] the fruit of the womb.

DBY

Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward.

DRC126:3

Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

GNV

Beholde, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruite of the wombe his rewarde.

JPS

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

LXXE126:3

Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb.

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WLC

הִנֵּ֤ה נַחֲלַ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה בָּנִ֑ים שָׂ֝כָ֗ר פְּרִ֣י הַבָּֽטֶן׃

LXX-Br126:3

Ἰδοὺ ἡ κληρονομία Κυρίου, υἱοί, ὁ μισθὸς τοῦ καρποῦ τῆς γαστρός.

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• Psalms 128:3–4Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
• Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
• 1 Samuel 1:27I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
• Genesis 48:4and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
• Genesis 33:5When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
• Isaiah 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
• Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
• 1 Samuel 1:19–20The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her. So in the course of…
• Joshua 24:3–4But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac, and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to…
• Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
• Genesis 41:51–52Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.” And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
• Genesis 30:1–2When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob. Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has…
• Genesis 15:4–5Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.” And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the…
• 1 Samuel 2:20–21And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home. So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived…
• 1 Chronicles 28:5And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
• Isaiah 13:18Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

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