Psalm 144:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹² 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:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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 by the sides 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 cheerful, 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 womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.