Psalms Chapter 127 verse 5 Holy Bible
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate. Psalm 128 A Song of Ascents.
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Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
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Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.
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Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
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Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
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O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. Happy the man whose quiver contains many such arrows, and who is thus sure of abundant protection. They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate; rather, when they shall speak (Hengstenberg, Kay, Cheyne, Revised Version). "The gate" was the place where judgment was given, and where consequently adversaries were apt to meet, as they pushed their respective causes. There might be collisions on such occasions; and, in any case, a man with several lusty sons to take his part would have an advantage.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) They.--Not the sons. There is here one of the sudden changes of number in which Hebrew poetry abounds. (See especially Psalm 107:43.) Parents who have large families of sons are evidently intended. From the figure of the warrior and the arrows we should expect here, too, a martial image. They shall not be discomfited, but they shall challenge their enemies in the gates. In illustration may be quoted:"Therefore men pray to have around their hearth,Obedient offspring, to requite their foesWith harm, and honour whom their father loves;But he whose issue is unprofitable,Begets what else but sorrow to himself,And store of laughter to his enemies?"SOPH.: Antig., 641On the other hand, it is the habit of Hebrew poetry to accumulate metaphors, and the gate is so commonly spoken of as the place of public resort, where legal cases were decided (Isaiah 29:21; Amos 5:12, &c), that it is quite as likely that the allusion here is to the support which a man's just cause would receive when evidently backed up by a long retinue of stalwart sons. This view certainly receives support from Job 5:4, where we have the very opposite picture of a tyrant's sons, not only unable to support their father, but themselves "crushed in the gate;" and the phrase "speak with their enemies" in this same verse may be illustrated from Joshua 20:4; Jeremiah 12:1. . . .
