Psalm 147:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 it came to pass, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and unto the rest of our enemies, that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even unto that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)

Nehemiah 7:1

Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

Nehemiah 7:3

And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand on guard, let them shut the doors, and bar ye them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his 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

When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth; And our daughters as corner stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

Psalm 51:18

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus saith the LORD: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

Jeremiah 33:11

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that say, Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, saith the LORD.

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks: and threescore and two weeks, it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times.