Psalm 147:13 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹³ For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your sons within you.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ For He has strengthened and made hard the bars of your gates, and He has blessed your children within you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

Common English Bible

¹³ Because God secures the bars on your gates, God blesses the children you have there.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.

Psalm 147:13 Cross References

Nehemiah 12:30

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.

Nehemiah 6:1

Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),

Nehemiah 7:1

Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Nehemiah 7:3

And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are still standing guard let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each to his station and each opposite his own house.”

Psalm 125:2

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time forth and for evermore.

Psalm 144:12

May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

Psalm 51:18

Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 33:10

“Thus says the Lord: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again

Jeremiah 33:11

the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: ‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.