Psalms 127:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:11 : 11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
  • Job 42:12-16 : 12 So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers. 16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
  • Ps 18:47 : 47 The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.
  • Gen 50:23 : 23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.
  • Job 1:2 : 2 Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 127:3-4
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    3Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

    4Sons born during one’s youth are like arrows in a warrior’s hand.

  • Ps 128:2-6
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    73%

    2You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

    3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

    4Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way.

    5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life,

    6and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!

  • Ps 137:8-9
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    8O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!

    9How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!

  • Ps 147:13
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    13For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.

  • Jer 5:16
    72%

    16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

  • Ps 144:12-13
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    12Then our sons will be like plants, that quickly grow to full size. Our daughters will be like corner pillars, carved like those in a palace.

    13Our storehouses will be full, providing all kinds of food. Our sheep will multiply by the thousands and fill our pastures.

  • Ps 144:15
    70%

    15How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!

  • Prov 23:24-25
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    24The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

    25May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

  • Prov 17:6
    69%

    6Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Job 5:4
    69%

    4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

  • Ps 17:14
    69%

    14LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.

  • Ps 112:2
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    2His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

  • Ps 84:4-5
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    4How blessed are those who live in your temple and praise you continually!(Selah)

    5How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!

  • Ps 113:9
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    9He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD!

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.

    13ה(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

  • Job 27:14
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    14If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

  • Ps 45:5
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    5Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

  • Ps 21:12
    67%

    12For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    67%

    5The well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.

  • Deut 28:4-5
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    4Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

    5Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

  • Judg 5:11
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    11Hear the sound of those who divide the sheep among the watering places; there they tell of the LORD’s victorious deeds, the victorious deeds of his warriors in Israel. Then the LORD’s people went down to the city gates–

  • Prov 31:28
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    28Her children have risen and called her blessed; her husband also has praised her:

  • Ps 37:19
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    19They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.

  • Ps 120:4
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    4Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

  • Ps 64:7
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    7But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

  • Ps 8:2
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    2From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.

  • Ps 45:15
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    15They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession and enter the royal palace.

  • Ps 126:6
    66%

    6The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

  • Prov 14:26
    66%

    26In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and it will be a refuge for his children.

  • Prov 27:11
    66%

    11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.

  • Job 39:23
    66%

    23On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

  • Prov 20:7
    66%

    7The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

  • Ps 115:14
    65%

    14May he increase your numbers, yours and your children’s!

  • Prov 8:32
    65%

    32“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Ps 37:15
    65%

    15Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • Ps 58:7
    65%

    7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

  • Deut 28:55
    65%

    55He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Job 21:8
    65%

    8Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

  • Ps 146:5
    65%

    5How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,