Psalm 147:13
New International Version
He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you.

New Living Translation
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates and blessed your children within your walls.

English Standard Version
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.

Berean Standard Bible
For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

King James Bible
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

New King James Version
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children within you.

New American Standard Bible
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons among you.

NASB 1995
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons within you.

NASB 1977
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons within you.

Legacy Standard Bible
For He strengthened the bars of your gates; He blessed your sons within you.

Amplified Bible
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates, He has blessed your children within you.

Christian Standard Bible
For he strengthens the bars of your city gates and blesses your children within you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your children within you.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because he has strengthened the bars of your gates and blessed your sons within you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy children within thee.

Contemporary English Version
He makes your city gates strong and blesses your people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.

English Revised Version
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He makes the bars across your gates strong. He blesses the children within you.

Good News Translation
He keeps your gates strong; he blesses your people.

International Standard Version
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessing your children within you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For He hath made strong the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

Literal Standard Version
For He strengthened the bars of your gates, | He has blessed your sons in your midst.

Majority Standard Bible
For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

New American Bible
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessed your children within you.

NET Bible
For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.

New Revised Standard Version
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.

New Heart English Bible
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

World English Bible
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

Young's Literal Translation
For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

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Context
It is Good to Sing Praises
12Exalt the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion! 13For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you. 14He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:25
May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days."

Nehemiah 3:3
The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

Nehemiah 7:3
And I told them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While the guards are on duty, keep the doors shut and securely fastened. And appoint the residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their own homes."

Psalm 37:26
They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.

Psalm 147:12
Exalt the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion!


Treasury of Scripture

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

he hath

Psalm 48:11-14
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments…

Psalm 51:18
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

blessed

Psalm 115:14,15
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children…

Psalm 128:3-6
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table…

Psalm 144:12
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

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Psalm 147
1. The prophet exhorts to praise God for his care of the church
4. His power and wisdom
6. His mercy
7. His providence
12. To praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom
15. For his power over the elements
19. And for his ordinances in the church














(13) For he hath strengthened.--An allusion to the new fortifications of the restored city is probable, though the expression is plainly figurative of security and peace.

With the second clause comp. Isaiah 60:17-18.

Verse 13. - For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates. The strength of gates in the ancient world depended wholly upon their bars, which were generally strong beams of wood passed across from side to side of the gateway, about midway up the gate, having their ends inserted into strong iron hooks or clamps, which were let into the stonework of the walls. The "bars" of the gates of Jerusalem are mentioned in Nehemiah repeatedly (Psalm 3:3, 6, 13, 14, 15; 7:3). He hath blessed thy children within thee. Under Nehemiah's govern-meet, when he had firmly established it, Israel enjoyed a period of repose and of great prosperity, which, at the date of the psalm, was probably just commencing.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

He strengthens
חִ֭זַּק (ḥiz·zaq)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

the bars
בְּרִיחֵ֣י (bə·rî·ḥê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1280: A bolt

of your gates
שְׁעָרָ֑יִךְ (šə·‘ā·rā·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate

and blesses
בֵּרַ֖ךְ (bê·raḵ)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

the children
בָּנַ֣יִךְ (bā·na·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

within you.
בְּקִרְבֵּֽךְ׃ (bə·qir·bêḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center


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