Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates. He has blessed thy sons 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.
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.
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
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
12 Praise LORD, O Jerusalem. Praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates. He has blessed thy sons within thee. 14 He makes peace in thy borders. He fills thee 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 the doors of it, even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 6:1
Now it came to pass, 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 in it, (though even to that time I had not s
Nehemiah 7:1
Now it came to pass, 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
And I said to them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot, and while they stand [on guard], let them shut the doors, and bar ye them. And appoint watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his wat
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 be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments.
Psalm 51:18
Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion. Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 115:14-15
LORD increase you more and more, you and your sons.
Psalm 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so LORD is round about his people from this time forth and for evermore.
Psalm 128:3-6
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of thy house, thy sons like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalm 144:12
When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, and our daughters as corner-stones hewn according to the fashion of a palace,
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and streams 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 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
LORD 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. And he has made the rampart and wall to lament, they languish together.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor 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, e
Zechariah 8:3-5
Thus says LORD: I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of LORD of hosts, The holy mountain.
Luke 19:42-44
saying, If thou knew, even thou, indeed even in this thy day, the things for thy peace. But now they are hidden from thine eyes.