Parallel Verses
World English Bible
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.
New American Standard Bible
He has
King James Version
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
Holman Bible
and blesses your children within you.
International Standard Version
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessing your children within you.
A Conservative Version
For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates. He has blessed thy sons within thee.
American Standard Version
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.
Amplified
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates,
He has blessed your children within you.
Bible in Basic English
He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.
Darby Translation
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee;
Julia Smith Translation
For he strengthened the bars of thy gates; he blessed thy sons within thee.
King James 2000
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for he strengthens the bars of your gates. He blesses your children within you;
Modern King James verseion
For He has made the bars of your gates strong; He has blessed your sons within you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates, and hath blessed thy children within thee.
NET Bible
For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.
New Heart English Bible
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.
The Emphasized Bible
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy children in thy midst:
Webster
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
Youngs Literal Translation
For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.
Themes
Interlinear
Chazaq
Barak
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! 13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you. 14 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:1-16
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 6:1
Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
Nehemiah 7:1
Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah 7:3
I said to them, "Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."
Nehemiah 12:30
The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Psalm 48:11-14
Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.
Psalm 51:18
Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 115:14-15
May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
Psalm 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 128:3-6
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
Psalm 144:12
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
Jeremiah 30:19-20
Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Lamentations 2:8-9
Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
Zechariah 8:3-5
Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
Luke 19:42-44
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.