Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
That, our sons, may be like plants well grown while yet young, - Our daughters, like corner pillars, - carved, in the construction of a palace:
New American Standard Bible
And our daughters as
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:
Holman Bible
nurtured in their youth,
our daughters, like corner pillars
that are carved in the palace style.
International Standard Version
May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace.
A Conservative Version
When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, and our daughters as corner-stones hewn according to the fashion of a palace,
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;
Amplified
Let our sons in their youth be like plants full grown,
And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace;
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:
Julia Smith Translation
That our sons as plants growing great in their youth, our daughters as corners variegated, the likeness of a temple:
King James 2000
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Lexham Expanded Bible
that our sons [may be] like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,
Modern King James verseion
so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that our sons may grow up as the young plants, and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple;
NET Bible
Then our sons will be like plants, that quickly grow to full size. Our daughters will be like corner pillars, carved like those in a palace.
New Heart English Bible
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Webster
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:
World English Bible
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Youngs Literal Translation
Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:12
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A King's Prayer
11 Snatch me away and rescue me out of he hand of the sons of the alien, - whose mouth hath spoken deceit, and, whose right hand, is a right hand of falsehood: - 12 That, our sons, may be like plants well grown while yet young, - Our daughters, like corner pillars, - carved, in the construction of a palace: 13 Our garners, full, pouring out from one kind to another; Our flocks, multiplying by thousands - by myriads, in our open fields:
Cross References
Psalm 128:3
Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house, - Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, round about thy table.
Job 42:15
And there were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land, - and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of their brethren.
Psalm 115:14-15
Yahweh multiply you, You, and your children.
Psalm 127:4-5
As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so, are the children of young men.
Proverbs 31:10-27
A virtuous woman, who can find? for, far beyond corals, is her worth.
Song of Songs 8:8-9
THEYA sister, have we, a little one, and, breasts, hath she none, What shall we do for our sister, in the day when she may be spoken for?
Isaiah 3:16-24
Because haughty are the daughters of Zion, And they walk with neck thrown back, and wanton eyes, - Tripping along as they go, And with their feet, making, a tinkling sound,
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour, Water upon the thirsty soil, and Floods upon the dry ground, - I will pour My spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thine offspring;
Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, they who were weighed against pure gold, How are they accounted as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
1 Peter 3:3-6
Whose adorning, let it be - not the outward, of plaiting the hair and wearing golden ornaments, or putting on of apparel,