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Psalms 144:12
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks to God immediately after requesting rescue from deceitful foreigners, projecting a future of communal restoration. This declaration follows a plea for deliverance and precedes a description of agricultural and economic abundance.
The words — נְטִיעִים (n.ti.'Im) translates to plants or shoots, and זָוִיּוֹת (za.vi.Yot) means corners or corner pillars. These terms ground the metaphor in agricultural cultivation and architectural craftsmanship.
The thread — The imagery of nurtured offspring echoes Psalms 128:3, where sons resemble olive shoots around a table. The theme of divine nourishment extends to Isaiah 44:3, while 1 Peter 3:3 explicitly contrasts carved adornment with inner character.
Why it lands — The text demands that readers measure blessing by the visible maturity and structural role of the next generation. It requires a practical assessment of how spiritual deliverance translates into tangible communal stability.
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The Hebrew words
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:
Cross-references
- Psalms 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
- 1 Peter 3:3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
- Psalms 115:14 May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
- Job 42:15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
- Song of Solomon 8:8 We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?
- Lamentations 4:2 How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
- Psalms 127:4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.
- Proverbs 31:10 A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
- Isaiah 3:16 The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—