Psalm 144:12
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
In context
10 to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
14 Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
Psalm 144:12 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- KJV King James Version
- 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:
- WEB World English Bible
- Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Because our sons [are] as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished — the likeness of a palace,
- DBY Darby Translation
- That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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: