Psalms 127:3
Your wife is like an abundant vine on the sides of your house. Your sons are like young olive trees surrounding your table.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
In Context
2For you will eat by the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it will be well with you.
4Behold, so will the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
Genesis 15:4And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: “This one will not be your heir. But he who will come from your loins, the same will you have for your heir.”
Genesis 30:1Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.”
Genesis 41:51And he called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has caused me to forget all my labors and the house of my father.”
Deuteronomy 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep.
Joshua 24:3Then I brought your father Abraham from the parts of Mesopotamia, and I led him into the land of Canaan. And I multiplied his offspring,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 127:2-5
Dependence on Providence; God the Giver of Prosperity. 1 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 3 Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of… Read the whole commentary →