Psalms 127:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 127:3

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

KJV

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ASV

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward.

WEB

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

YLT

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb.

DBT

Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 128:3–4
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
1 Samuel 1:27
For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
Genesis 48:4
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

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Observe here, Children of the youth are arrows in the hand, which, with prudence, may be directed aright to the mark, God's glory and the service of their generation; but afterwards, when they have gone abroad into the world, they are arrows out of the hand; it is too late to bend them then.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Solomon was called Jedidiah--Beloved of the Lord ( 2 Sam. xii. 25 ); to him the kingdom was promised, and then it was in vain for Absalom to rise up early, to wheedle the people, and for Adonijah to make such a stir, and to say, I will be king. Solomon sits still, and, being beloved of the Lord, to him he gives sleep and the kingdom too.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Children - The chief of these blessings. Heritage - Only from God's blessing, even as an inheritance is not the fruit of a man's own labour, but the gift of God.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Posterity is often represented as a blessing from God (Ge 30:2, 18; Children are represented as the defenders (arrows) of their parents in war, and in litigation.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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