Text -- Psalms 127:3 (NET)

127:3 Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 127:3

¹ tn or “look.”

² tn Some prefer to translate this term with the gender neutral “children,” but “sons” are plainly in view here, as the following verses make clear. Daughters are certainly wonderful additions to a family, but in ancient Israelite culture sons were the “arrows” that gave a man security in his old age, for they could defend the family interests at the city gate, where the legal and economic issues of the community were settled.