Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For he strengthened the bars of thy gates; he 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.
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;
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 Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For he strengthened the bars of thy gates; he blessed thy sons within thee. 14 Setting thy bound peace, he will fill thee with the fat of the wheat.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:1-16
And Eliashib the great priest will rise up and his brethren the priests, and they will build the sheep gate; they consecrated it, and they will set up its doors, and even to the tower of Meah they consecrated, and even to the tower of Hananeel.
Nehemiah 6:1
And it will be as it was heard by Sanballat and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arabian, and by the rest of our enemies, that I built the wall and a breach was not left in it; also even to this time I set not up the doors in the gates;
Nehemiah 7:1
And it will be as the wall was built, and I shall set up the doors, and the gate-keepers, and those singing, and the Levites will be appointed.
Nehemiah 7:3
And it will be said to them, The gates of Jerusalem shall not be opened till the sun being hot; and till they standing by shall shut the doors and fasten: and setting up watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a man in his watch, and a man before his house.
Nehemiah 12:30
And the priests and the Levites will be purified, and they will purify the people and the gates and the wall
Psalm 48:11-14
Mount Zion shall rejoice, the daughters of Judah shall be glad for sake of thy judgments.
Psalm 51:18
Do Zion good in thy good will: thou wilt build the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 115:14-15
Jehovah will add to you, to you and to your sons.
Psalm 125:2
Jerusalem, the mountains are round about to her; and Jehovah is round about to his people from now and even to forever.
Psalm 128:3-6
Thy wife as a vine bearing fruit in the sides of thy house: thy sons as plants of olives round about thy table.
Psalm 144:12
That our sons as plants growing great in their youth, our daughters as corners variegated, the likeness of a temple:
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour water upon the thirsty, and flowings upon the dry: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
Jeremiah 30:19-20
And thanksgiving shall go forth from them, and the voice of those playing, and I multiplied them, and they shall not be few; and I honored them, and they shall not be small.
Lamentations 2:8-9
Jehovah purposed to destroy the walls of the daughter of Zion: he stretched out a line, he turned not back his hand from swallowing down: and the entrenchment will mourn, and the wall; together they languished.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth believed not, and all those dwelling in the habitable globe, that the enemy will come in to the gates of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:25
And thou shalt know and understand, from the going forth of the word to turn back and to build Jerusalem even to Messiah the leader, seventy weeks, and sixty and two weeks: and the street shall turn back and be built, and the ditch, in the trouble of the times.
Zechariah 8:3-5
Thus said Jehovah: I turned back to Zion, and I dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem was called, The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of armies, The holy mountain.
Luke 19:42-44
Saying, That if thou knewest, also thou, and also in this thy day, the things for thy peace! and now have they been hid from thine eyes.