Psalms 147:13

In 11 translations

BSB

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

KJV

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

WEB

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

ASV

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

LSV

For He strengthened the bars of your gates, || He has blessed your sons in your midst.

YLT

For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

DBY

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee;

DRC147:2

Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.

GNV

For he hath made the barres of thy gates strong, and hath blessed thy children within thee.

JPS

For He hath made strong the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

LXXE147:2

For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy children within thee.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

כִּֽי־חִ֭זַּק בְּרִיחֵ֣י שְׁעָרָ֑יִךְ בֵּרַ֖ךְ בָּנַ֣יִךְ בְּקִרְבֵּֽךְ׃

LXX-Br147:2

Ὅτι ἐνίσχυσεν τοὺς μοχλοὺς τῶν πυλῶν σου, εὐλόγησεν τοὺς υἱούς σου ἐν σοί.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 128:3–6Your 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. May the LORD bless you…
• Isaiah 44:3–5For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring. They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing…
• Psalms 115:14–15May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children. May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
• Jeremiah 30:19–20Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled. Their children will be as in days of old, and their…
• Psalms 144:12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
• Psalms 125:2As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
• Lamentations 2:8–9The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away. Her…
• Nehemiah 12:30After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
• Psalms 48:11–14Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments. March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers, consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation. For…
• Nehemiah 3:1–16At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated…
• Zechariah 8:3–5This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.” This is what the LORD…
• Psalms 51:18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
• Nehemiah 6:1When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
• Lamentations 4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
• Nehemiah 7:1When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.
• Nehemiah 7:3And I told them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While the guards are on duty, keep the doors shut and securely fastened. And appoint the residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts…

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