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Salmos 127:3
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He aquí, don del Señor son los hijos; y recompensa es el fruto del vientre.
He aqu�, herencia de Jehov� son los hijos; cosa de estima el fruto del vientre.
He aqu�, heredad del SE�OR son los hijos; cosa de estima el fruto del vientre.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
children: Psalms 128:3, Psalms 128:4, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 15:4, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 24:60, Genesis 30:1, Genesis 30:2, Genesis 33:5, Genesis 41:51, Genesis 41:52, Genesis 48:4, Deuteronomy 28:4, Joshua 24:3, Joshua 24:4, 1 Samuel 1:19, 1 Samuel 1:20, 1 Samuel 1:27, 1 Samuel 2:20, 1 Samuel 2:21, 1 Chronicles 28:5, Isaiah 8:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:2 - a keeper Genesis 5:4 - and he Genesis 11:11 - begat sons Genesis 15:2 - childless Genesis 16:2 - the Lord Genesis 28:3 - and make Genesis 29:31 - he opened Genesis 30:22 - opened Genesis 48:9 - my sons Exodus 1:21 - made them Deuteronomy 7:14 - male or Ruth 4:11 - the Lord Ruth 4:13 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 8:40 - many sons 1 Chronicles 25:5 - God gave Nehemiah 5:2 - our sons Job 1:2 - seven sons Job 5:25 - thy seed Job 21:11 - General Job 29:5 - my children Job 42:13 - General Proverbs 5:16 - dispersed Proverbs 17:6 - Children's Luke 1:13 - thy prayer Hebrews 2:13 - which
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lo, children [are] an heritage of the Lord,.... As all success, safety, and the blessings of life, depend on the providence of God; so this very great blessing is a gift of his; having children, and those good ones, as the Targum interprets it; for of such only can it be understood: so, in a spiritual sense, the children of Christ, the antitypical Solomon, are the gifts of his heavenly Father to him; his portion and inheritance, and a goodly heritage he esteems them;
[and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward; "fruit" y is the same with "children" in the preceding clause; see Luke 1:42; a reward he gives to good men, not of debt, but of grace; the Targum,
"a reward of good works:''
so regenerate persons are a reward to Christ, of his sufferings and death, Isaiah 53:10.
y "Nascitur ad fructum mulier", Claudian. in Eutrop. l. 1. v. 331.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord - They are an inheritance derived from the Lord. They are bestowed by him as really as success is in building a house, or in guarding a city. The idea is, that everything which we value, or which we desire, is a gift from God, and is to be received as from him, and to be acknowledged as his gift. The general idea here, as in the previous verses, is that of entire dependence on God.
And the fruit of the womb is his reward - Or rather, “a reward;” that is, they are of the nature of a reward for a life of devotion to God; they are among the blessings which God promises, and are evidences of his favor. Our translation by inserting the words “is his” obscures the sense, as if the meaning were that they belong to God as his “reward” for what he does for us. The reverse of this is the true idea - that they are a blessing with which he rewards or favors his people. Of course, this is not universally true, but the promise is a general one, in accordance with the usual promises in the Bible in regard to the result of piety. Children are to be reckoned among the divine favors bestowed on us, and for their lives, their health, their virtues, and the happiness derived from them, we are, as in other things, dependent on him - as in building a house, in guarding a city, or in the rest and comfort derived from toil.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 127:3. Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord — That is, To many God gives children in place of temporal good. To many others he gives houses, lands, and thousands of gold and silver, and with them the womb that beareth not; and these are their inheritance. The poor man has from God a number of children, without lands or money; these are his inheritance; and God shows himself their father, feeding and supporting them by a chain of miraculous providences. Where is the poor man who would give up his six children, with the prospect of having more, for the thousands or millions of him who is the centre of his own existence, and has neither root nor branch but his forlorn solitary self upon the face of the earth? Let the fruitful family, however poor, lay this to heart; "Children are a heritage of the Lord; and the fruit of the womb is his reward." And he who gave them will feed them; for it is a fact, and the maxim formed on it has never failed, "Wherever God sends mouths, he sends meat." "Murmur not," said an Arab to his friend, "because thy family is large; know that it is for their sakes that God feeds thee."
