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

For He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
He has blessed your sons within you.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For He strengthens the bars of your gates
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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the bars
בּריח 
B@riyach 
Usage: 41

of thy gates
שׁער 
Sha`ar 
Usage: 374

בּרך 
Barak 
Usage: 330

קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

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.

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