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


In Context

9 I will sing a new song to you, O God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

10 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David from the deadly sword.

11 Deliver me and rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.

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

13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;

14 our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.

Psalms 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

144:12Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

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: