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Psalms 115:14
May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist pronounces a communal blessing upon the faithful, extending from the small to the great. This declaration functions as a liturgical response to the preceding call to fear the LORD.
The words — יֹסֵף (yosef) literally means “may he add” or “increase,” paired with בּנֵיכֶם (beneikhem), “your children.” The syntax frames divine addition as a direct grant to the addressed community.
The thread — This pattern of covenantal increase appears in Deuteronomy 1:11, where God promises to multiply Israel. The New Testament applies the promise to believers and their offspring in Acts 2:39 and extends the covenant lineage in Acts 3:25.
Why it lands — The text demands that readers expect tangible provision from God rather than relying on human effort. It grounds communal continuity in divine action, requiring trust in the covenant Maker.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 1:11 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
- Acts 2:39 This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- Acts 3:25 And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
- Jeremiah 33:22 As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- Genesis 17:7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 13:16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
- 2 Samuel 24:3 But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
- Jeremiah 30:19 Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
- Jeremiah 32:38 They will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel: