◄ Psalm 127:4 {126:4} ►
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Good News Translation
The sons a man has when he is young are like arrows in a soldier's hand.

New Revised Standard Version
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons of one’s youth.

Contemporary English Version
Having a lot of children to take care of you in your old age is like a warrior with a lot of arrows.

New American Bible
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.

arrows

Jeremiah 50:9 For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.

so are children

Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.

Proverbs 31:28 Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her.

Context
Children are a Heritage From the LORD
…3Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb. 4As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.5Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.…
Cross References
Psalm 112:2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

Psalm 120:4
The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

Psalm 127:3
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