Psalm 127:3 - King James Version - American Edition

³ Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: And the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. [Deut. 28:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; And the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Common English Bible

³ No doubt about it: children are a gift from the LORD; the fruit of the womb is a divine reward.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Your wife is like an abundant vine on the sides of your house. Your sons are like young olive trees surrounding your table.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Psalm 127:3 Cross References

Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister; be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Genesis 33:5

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

Genesis 4:1

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

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.

2 Samuel 3:5

and the sixth, Ith´re-am, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

1 Chronicles 28:5

and of all my sons, (for the Lord hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

1 Chronicles 8:40

And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.

Job 1:2

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

Isaiah 13:18

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

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.

Deuteronomy 28:11

And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

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.

Judges 12:9

And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

1 Samuel 1:27

For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: