Psalm 144:12
World English Bible (WEB)
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
In context
10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
Psalm 144:12 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like 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:
- 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.
- 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: