Psalms 127:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Like as arrowes be in the hande of the strong: euen so are the chyldren of youth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Childers children are a crowne of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.
  • Prov 31:28 : 28 Her children arise vp & call her blessed: and her husbande shall make much of her.
  • Jer 50:9 : 9 For lo, I wyll wake vp an hoast of people from the northren lande, & bryng them vpon Babylon, these shal lay siege to it, and winne it: their arrowes shall not misse, like as a cunnyng archer shooteth not wrong.
  • Ps 120:4 : 4 So much as sharpe arrowes of a strong man in thy sydes: with Iuniper coales powred on thy head.

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    3Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde.

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    16Their arrowes are sodayne death, yea they them selues be very giauntes.

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    12That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes: that our daughters may be as corners stones grauen after the fashion as a palace is.

    13That the corners of our houses may be fylled, yeeldyng foorth all maner of stoore: that our cattell may bring foorth thousandes, yea ten thousandes in our streates.

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    4So much as sharpe arrowes of a strong man in thy sydes: with Iuniper coales powred on thy head.

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    5Thyne arrowes are sharpe: a people the kynges enemies shall submit in heart them selues vnto thee.

  • Prov 17:6
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    4The bowe with the mightie men are broken, and they that were weake haue gyrde them selues with strength.

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    3Thy wyfe shalbe as a fruitfull vine: vpon the sides of thyne house. Thy chyldren shalbe like oliue braunches: rounde about thy table.

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    2Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake: that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger.

  • Ps 21:12
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    12Therfore thou wilt put them to flight: and direct thine arrowes agaynst their faces.

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    12He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.

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    35He teacheth my handes to fight: that euen a bowe of steele is broken with myne armes.

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    7But the Lorde wyll sodenly shoote at them with a swyft arrowe: their plagues shalbe apparaunt.

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    21And I wil sende a lad, and byd him go seke the arrowes. And if I say vnto the lad, See, the arrowes are on this side thee, bring them: then come thou, for it is peace and no hurt, as the Lorde lyueth:

    22But and if I say vnto the lad, behold the arows are beyond thee, go thy way, for the Lorde hath sent thee away.

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