Psalm 144:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² Because our sons are like plants Grown up in their youth; Our daughters like hewn stones, Polished, like a palace building;

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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.

Psalm 144:12 Cross References

Job 42:15

And in all the land were found no women so pretty as the daughters of Iyoḇ

Psalm 128:3

Let your wife be As a fruit-bearing vine within your house, Your sons like olive plants all around your table.

Lamentations 4:2

The precious sons of Tsiyon Who were weighed against fine gold, How they have been reckoned as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter!

Zechariah 9:17

For what goodness is His, and what comeliness is His. Grain make the young men thrive, and new wine the maidens!

Deuteronomy 7:13

and shall love you and bless you and increase you, and shall bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.