Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For He has made the bars of your gates strong; He has blessed your sons 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 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
Chazaq
Barak
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 your God, O Zion. 13 For He has made the bars of your gates strong; He has blessed your sons within you. 14 He makes peace in your borders and 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 Meah they sanctified it, to the Tower of Hananeel.
Nehemiah 6:1
And it happened, when Sanballat, and Tobiah and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no break left in it (though at that time I had not set the doors on the gates),
Nehemiah 7:1
And it happened when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were chosen,
Nehemiah 7:3
And I said to them, Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they stand by, let them shut and bar the doors. And set guards from the people of Jerusalem, each one in his watch, and each one to be across from 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 the daughters of Judah shout for joy because of Your judgments!
Psalm 51:18
Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 115:14-15
Jehovah shall add on to you, even on you and on your sons.
Psalm 125:2
As the mountains are all around Jerusalem, so Jehovah is all around His people from this time and forever.
Psalm 128:3-6
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your sons shall be like olive plants around your table.
Psalm 144:12
so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground. I will pour My spirit on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring;
Jeremiah 30:19-20
And out of them shall come thanksgiving, and the voice of those who rejoice. 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
Jehovah purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing, and He made rampart and wall lament; they languish together.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth, and all the people of the world, would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into Jerusalem's gates.
Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.
Zechariah 8:3-5
So says Jehovah: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a City of Truth, and the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, the Holy Mountain.
Luke 19:42-44
saying, If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours, the things for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.