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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 107:38

The Lord will bless you with many children and with herds of cattle.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Children;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Blessings;   Blessings-Afflictions;   Temporal;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Government;   Poverty;   Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poetry of the Hebrews;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Harvest;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Discontent;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He blesses them, and they multiply greatly;he does not let their livestock decrease.
Hebrew Names Version
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their cattle to decrease.
King James Version
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
English Standard Version
By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish.
New Century Version
God blessed them, and they grew in number. Their cattle did not become fewer.
New English Translation
He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
Amplified Bible
Also He blesses them so that they multiply greatly, And He does not let [the number of] their cattle decrease.
New American Standard Bible
He also blesses them and they multiply greatly, And He does not let their cattle decrease.
World English Bible
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their cattle to decrease.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For he blesseth them, & they multiplie exceedingly, and he diminisheth not their cattell.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also He blesses them and they multiply greatly,And He does not let their cattle decrease.
Berean Standard Bible
He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
Complete Jewish Bible
He blesses them, their numbers grow, and he doesn't let their livestock decrease.
Darby Translation
And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Easy-to-Read Version
God blessed them with many children and plenty of animals.
George Lamsa Translation
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffers not their cattle to decrease.
Good News Translation
He blessed his people, and they had many children; he kept their herds of cattle from decreasing.
Lexham English Bible
And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few.
Literal Translation
He also blesses them, so that they multiply greatly; and He does not allow their cattle to diminish;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceadingly, and suffreth not their catell to decrease.
American Standard Version
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Bible in Basic English
He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
King James Version (1611)
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly: and suffreth not their cattell to decrease.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, and he diminishes not the number of their cattle.
English Revised Version
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he blesside hem, and thei weren multiplied greetli; and he made not lesse her werk beestis.
Update Bible Version
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he does not allow their cattle to decrease.
Webster's Bible Translation
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
New King James Version
He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly; And He does not let their cattle decrease.
New Living Translation
How he blesses them! They raise large families there, and their herds of livestock increase.
New Life Bible
He lets good come to them and they become many in number. And He does not let the number of their cattle become less.
New Revised Standard
By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle decrease.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus hath he blessed them, and they have multiplied greatly, And, their cattle, he maketh not few.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(106-38) And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.
Revised Standard Version
By his blessing they multiply greatly; and he does not let their cattle decrease.
Young's Literal Translation
And He blesseth them, and they multiply exceedingly, And their cattle He doth not diminish.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also He blesses them and they multiply greatly, And He does not let their cattle decrease.

Contextual Overview

33 If you start doing wrong, the Lord will turn rivers into deserts, 34 flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt. 35 But the Lord can also turn deserts into lakes and scorched land into flowing streams. 36 If you are hungry, you can settle there and build a town. 37 You can plant fields and vineyards that produce a good harvest. 38 The Lord will bless you with many children and with herds of cattle. 39 Sometimes you may be crushed by troubles and sorrows, until only a few of you are left to survive. 40 But the Lord will take revenge on those who conquer you, and he will make them wander across desert sands. 41 When you are suffering and in need, he will come to your rescue, and your families will grow as fast as a herd of sheep. 42 You will see this because you obey the Lord , but everyone who is wicked will be silenced.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He blesseth: Psalms 128:1-6, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 17:16, Genesis 17:20, Exodus 1:7, Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:11, Deuteronomy 30:9, Jeremiah 30:19, Ezekiel 37:26

suffereth: Psalms 144:13, Psalms 144:14, Genesis 30:43, Genesis 31:9, Exodus 9:3-7, Exodus 12:38, Deuteronomy 7:14, Proverbs 10:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:22 - General Genesis 8:17 - breed Genesis 24:35 - flocks Genesis 47:27 - grew Exodus 23:26 - shall nothing Leviticus 26:9 - make you Job 1:2 - seven sons Job 1:10 - thou hast blessed Job 12:23 - increaseth Job 42:12 - he had Isaiah 9:3 - hast multiplied

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly,.... Not only their fields and vineyards are blessed with an increase, but these husbandmen themselves; as man at his first creation was bid to do, being blessed of God; and as the Israelites were in Egypt, Genesis 1:28 and which may spiritually denote the great number of converts to Christian churches, especially in the latter day,

Jeremiah 30:19.

And suffereth not their cattle to decrease; their sheep and oxen, which is reckoned a great temporal happiness, Psalms 144:13, and may signify that God does and will give a sufficient number of Gospel ministers, comparable to oxen for their laboriousness, that shall in all ages minister to his churches; see 1 Corinthians 9:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He blesseth them also - In the manner immediately specified.

So that they are multiplied greatly - This was regarded as one of the highest blessings which God could confer, and hence, it was so often promised by him to the patriarchs, as a proof of his favor, that their seed should be as the stars of heaven, and as the sand upon the sea-shore. Genesis 13:16; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 26:4; Genesis 32:12.

And suffereth not their cattle to decrease - The keeping of herds of cattle was also an important point in husbandry, and hence, it was a blessing that they were made to increase, and that they were kept from the diseases to which cattle are subject.


 
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