Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Parallel translations
- 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:
- BSB Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- NKJV That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; That our daughters may be as pillars, Sculptured in palace style;
- NASB ¶When our sons in their youth are like growing plants, And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace,
- NLT May our sons flourish in their youth like well-nurtured plants. May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace.
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- Ps 128:3Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
- 1 Pet 3:3–6Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
- Isa 44:3–5For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
- Ps 115:14–15May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
- Job 42:15In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
- Song 8:8–9We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?
- Lam 4:2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
- Isa 3:16–24Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
- Ps 127:4–5As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
- Prov 31:10–27Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
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