Psalm 144:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth; And our daughters as corner stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; That our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

When our sons shall be as plants grown large in their youth and our daughters as sculptured corner pillars hewn like those of a palace;

American Standard Version (1901)

When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

Common English Bible

so that our sons can grow up fully, in their youth, like plants; so that our daughters can be like pillars carved to decorate a palace;

Catholic Public Domain Version

so as to make known to the sons of men your power and the glory of your magnificent kingdom.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.

Psalm 144:12 Cross References

Job 42:15

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: And their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Psalm 128:3

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thine house: Thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.

Lamentations 4:2

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Zechariah 9:17

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.

Deuteronomy 7:13

and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.