Psalm 127:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ Look, children are an inheritance from יהוה, The fruit of the womb is the 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

Genesis 1:28

And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Riḇ

Genesis 33:5

And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?” And he said, “The children with whom Elohim has favoured your servant.”

Genesis 4:1

And Aḏ

Genesis 48:4

and said to me, ‘See, I am making you bear fruit and shall increase you and make of you an assembly of peoples, and give this land to your seed after you as an everlasting possession.’

2 Samuel 3:5

and the sixth, Yithreʽ

1 Chronicles 28:5

“And of all my sons – for יהוה  has given me many sons – He has chosen my son Shelomoh to sit on the throne of the reign of יהוה  over Yisra’ĕ

1 Chronicles 8:40

And the sons of Ulam were mighty brave men, archers, and had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. These were all sons of Binyamin.

Job 1:2

And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

Isaiah 13:18

“And bows dash the young to pieces, and they have no compassion on the fruit of the womb, their eye spare no children.

Isaiah 8:18

Look, I and the children whom יהוה  has given me – for signs and wonders in Yisra’ĕ

Deuteronomy 28:11

“And יהוה  shall make you to have plenty of what is good, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land of which יהוה  swore to your fathers to give you.

Deuteronomy 28:4

“Blessed is the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock – the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

Judges 12:9

And he came to have thirty sons and thirty daughters – he sent abroad and brought in thirty daughters for his sons. And he ruled Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 1:27

“I prayed for this youth, and יהוה  has granted me what I asked of Him.