Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
- KJV Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
- BSB that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- NASB Indeed, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- NLT May you live to enjoy your grandchildren. May Israel have peace!
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Quick answer
May you live to see your children's children, and peace be upon Israel. It crowns the blessing with long life, generational fruitfulness, and corporate peace.
Overview
The psalm closes by desiring grandchildren and invoking peace on Israel, tying family blessing to the well-being of the whole covenant people. Generational continuity and communal peace are seen as gifts of God. Such peace finds its fullness in Christ, who unites believers across generations into one redeemed family.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Job 42:16After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
- Gen 50:23Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
- Isa 66:12For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
- Prov 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
- Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
- Gal 1:16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
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