John Trapp on Psalms 127:4

Verſ. 4 As Arrows are in the hand of a mighty man] Heb. Of a Gyant, who ſhe[illegible: 1 letter]teth them with a courage, and is cunning at it. As clean and well-kept arrows. [illegible: 1 word] ſimilitude importeth, that Children muſt have more in them than nature; for arrows are not atrrows by growth, but by art: ſo they muſt bee ſuch Children, the knottineſs of whoſe nature is refined and reformed, and made, ſmooth by grace: and then they are cared for. As, if they prove otherwiſe, they are a ſingular heart break to their poor Parents, who are ſeen to ſit under Elias his Juniper, wiſhing for dea[illegible: 1 letter]h, and ſaying with Moſes, Numb. 11.14 15. I am not able to bear all this ſore affliction; becauſe it is too heavy for mee. And if thou deal thus with mee, kill mee I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy light, and let mee not ſee my w[illegible: 1 letter]e chedneſs.

So are children of the youth] Or, young ſons, or [illegible: 2 letters]ds, ſpringlings, ſtriplings, vegetous and vigorous, able to bee a guard to their aged Parents againſt the children of violence, who ſeek to preſs in upon them at the door, as the Sodomites dealt by righteous Lot, (ſee verſe 5.) beſides the ſervice they may do to the Commonwealth (as did the Horatii, and Curatii) by their impetus h[illegible: 1 letter]roici, valour and vertue.