Psalm 144:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars, cut for the building 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

In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.

Psalm 128:3

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Lamentations 4:2

The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold— how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!

Zechariah 9:17

For what goodness and beauty are his! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.

Deuteronomy 7:13

he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you.