Psalm 144:12
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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:
Note polished: Heb. cut
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- as plants
- Psalm 115:14, 15; Psalm 127:4, 5; Psalm 128:3; Isaiah 44:3–5; Lamentations 4:2
- as corner stones
- Job 42:15; Proverbs 31:10–27; Isaiah 3:16–24
- polished
- Heb. cut. the similitude.
- Song of Songs 8:8, 9; 1 Peter 3:3–6