12Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:


In Context

9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

11 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

14 their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

Psalm 144:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

144:12That 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:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

144:12Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

144:12When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

144:12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

144:12When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters as corner stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

144:12That 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:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

144:12Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

144:12Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished — the likeness of a palace,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

144:12That 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: