Fourteen verses on family life, from children around the table to a blessing for a new home.
The psalms talk about family in ordinary terms: children around a table, grandchildren, brothers living together, a house that needs building and a gate that needs strong bars. They also admit what can go wrong. Psalm 27 imagines a father and mother forsaking a child, and Psalm 68 says God sets the lonely in families. The verses below stay close to what each psalm says about the people we live with.
The page is grouped by what you are looking for: family and children, peace in the home, a blessing for a new house, and handing faith on. Tick the verses you want and print them for a fridge, a card or a new front door.
Verses that picture parents, children, grandchildren and brothers.
Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD.The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Children are called a heritage of the LORD, and the fruit of the womb his reward. The verse speaks of children as something given by the LORD.
Yes, may you see your children’s children.Peace be upon Israel.
Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
Yes, may you see your children's children. The blessing reaches past one generation to grandchildren.
Like a father has compassion on his children,so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
God's compassion is compared to a father's compassion for his children. The psalm uses family as its picture of how God treats people.
See how good and how pleasant it isfor brothers to live together in unity!
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
The psalm praises brothers who live together in unity. It calls that both good and pleasant.
God sets the lonely in families.He brings out the prisoners with singing,but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
God sets the lonely in families. The verse describes God giving a family to people who are on their own.
Verses about how a household lives from day to day.
Peace be within your walls,and prosperity within your palaces.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. The prayer is spoken over Jerusalem and asks for peace inside its walls.
I will be careful to live a blameless life.When will you come to me?I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. The resolution is about conduct inside his own house.
In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep,for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
The writer lies down and sleeps in peace, because the LORD makes him live in safety. It is a verse for the end of a household's day.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.“The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The psalm places joy in the tents where people live.
Verses about building a house and the people inside it. Reading them is a prayer, not a charm.
Unless the LORD builds the house,they who build it labor in vain.Unless the LORD watches over the city,the watchman guards it in vain.
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. The verse speaks of building a house and guarding a city, and says both depend on the LORD.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.He has blessed your children within you.
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
He has strengthened the bars of your gates, and blessed your children within you. The verse is addressed to Jerusalem and pairs a secure entrance with blessed people inside.
Psalms about parents telling their children what God has done.
We will not hide them from their children,telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
We will not hide them from their children. The psalm commits to telling the generation to come about the praises of the LORD and his deeds.
One generation will commend your works to another,and will declare your mighty acts.
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
One generation will commend your works to another. The verse pictures praise passing from older people to younger.
Let your work appear to your servants,your glory to their children.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children. The prayer asks for the children to see what the parents saw.
Psalm 128 pictures a whole family, with children like olive shoots around the table and grandchildren in verse 6. Psalm 127, just before it, is about building a house and children as a heritage.
Psalm 127:1 says that unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Psalm 122:7, spoken over Jerusalem, asks for peace within your walls.
Psalm 101:2 is a resolution to walk within my house with a blameless heart. Psalm 4:8 speaks of lying down and sleeping in peace.
Psalm 103:13 compares God's compassion to a father's compassion for his children, and Psalm 133:1 praises brothers living together in unity.
No psalm is written as a house blessing ritual. Psalm 127:1 and Psalm 147:13, which speaks of strong gates and children blessed within, are the closest in wording.
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