Psalm 127:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ Lo, children are an 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.

Psalm 127:3 Cross References

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 young of thy flock.

1 Samuel 1:27

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

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.

Genesis 48:4

and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Genesis 33:5

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

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, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

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.

Isaiah 13:18

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

Genesis 4:1

And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 28:11

And the LORD shall make thee plenteous for good, 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.

Judges 12:9

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

2 Samuel 3:5

and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

1 Chronicles 8:40

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

Job 1:2

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