Psalm 147:13

Translations

Modern

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

Traditional

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

Literal

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

Latin

Quoniam confortavit seras portarum tuarum; benedixit filiis tuis in te.

Original

Hebrew

English

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

Notes

Psalms 147:13

the bars of your gates: These represent protection from enemies.
God blesses his people by giving them safety, prosperity, peace, and the things they need (see Psalm 133:3).

Psalms 147:1–20

The psalmist calls for the Lord to be praised for restoring and blessing Zion, caring for the poor, displaying his power over nature, and revealing himself to his people.

Psalms 146:1–150:6

The Psalter ends with five hallelujah psalms, so named because each begins and ends with Praise the LORD! (Hebrew haleluyah).

Related verses

Psalm 128:3–6
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Isaiah 44:3–5
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
Psalm 115:14–15
May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
Jeremiah 30:19–20
Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
Psalm 144:12
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Psalm 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
Lamentations 2:8–9
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
Nehemiah 12:30
After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
Psalm 48:11–14
Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
Zechariah 8:3–5
This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
Nehemiah 3:1–16
At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.
Nehemiah 6:1
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

Glossary

Hallel Music Psalms, Book of

Topics

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