Psalm 144:12

New International Reader's Version

While our sons are young, they will be like healthy plants. Our daughters will be like pillars that have been made to decorate a palace.

Cross References

Job 42:15

Job’s daughters were more beautiful than any other women in the whole land. Their father gave them a share of property along with their brothers.

Psalm 128:3

As a vine bears a lot of fruit, so may your wife have many children by you. May they sit around your table like young olive trees.

Lamentations 4:2

The priceless children of Zion were worth their weight in gold. But now they are thought of as clay pots made by the hands of a potter.

Zechariah 9:17

How very beautiful they will be! Grain and fresh wine will make the young men and young women strong.

Deuteronomy 7:13

The Lord will love you and bless you. He’ll cause there to be many of you. He’ll give you many children. He’ll bless the crops of your land. He’ll give you plenty of grain, olive oil and fresh wine. He’ll bless your herds with many calves. He’ll give your flocks many lambs. He’ll do all these things for you in the land of Canaan. It’s the land he promised your people of long ago that he would give you.