Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee;
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.
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.
World English Bible
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.
Youngs Literal Translation
For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
12 Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee; 14 He maketh peace in thy borders; he satisfieth thee with the finest of the wheat.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:1-16
And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and set up its doors; and they hallowed it even to the tower of Meah, to the tower of Hananeel.
Nehemiah 6:1
And it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
Nehemiah 7:1
And it came to pass when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, that the doorkeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed.
Nehemiah 7:3
And I said to them that the gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun was hot, and that they should shut the doors and bar them while they stood by; and that there should be appointed watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one over against his house.
Nehemiah 12:30
And 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 rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
Psalm 51:18
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 115:14-15
Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children.
Psalm 125:2
Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, and Jehovah is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore.
Psalm 128:3-6
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
Psalm 144:12
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
Jeremiah 30:19-20
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished; and I will honour them, and they shall not be small.
Lamentations 2:8-9
Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languish together.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.
Zechariah 8:3-5
Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called, The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain.
Luke 19:42-44
saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;