Bible verse
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Psalm 144:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Psalm 144.
8 whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
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.
15 Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
KJV
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:
ASV
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;
ERV
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;
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