John Gill Commentary Psalms 127:3

"Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; [And] the fruit of the womb is [his] reward." — Psalms 127:3 (ASV)

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" ^F25 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 53:10Isaiah 53:11) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F25: "Nascitur ad fructum mulier", Claudian. in Eutrop. l. 1. v. 331.