Psalms 127:3
1 Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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 the LORD. 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.
- DARBY
- Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward.
- BLB
- Behold, an inheritance of YHWH [are] sons, a reward [is] the fruit of the womb.
- ÅB
- Se, barn er Herrens gave, livsfrukt er en lønn.
- OTB
- Se, barn er en gave fra Herren,
Livets frukt er en nådig belønning. - B1930
- Se, barn er Herrens gave, livsfrukt er en lønn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 128:3–4
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:4
The 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.
Read in context1 Samuel 1:27
I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
Read in contextGenesis 48:4
and 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.’
Read in contextGenesis 33:5
When 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.”
Read in contextIsaiah 8:18
Here 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.
Read in contextGenesis 1:28
God 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.”
Read in context1 Samuel 1:19–20
The 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.
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