Psalm 144:12 {143:12}
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Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

as plants

Psalm 115:14,15 May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children. . . .

Psalm 127:4,5 As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken. . . .

Psalm 128:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Isaiah 44:3-5 For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock. . . .

Lamentations 4:2 Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that were clothed with the best gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the potter's hands?

as corner stones

Job 42:15 And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Proverbs 31:10-27 Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. . . .

Isaiah 3:16-24 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: . . .

polished.

Songs 8:8,9 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to? . . .

1 Peter 3:3-6 Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: . . .

Context
Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock
11Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity: 12Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:13Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:…
Cross References
Psalm 92:12
The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Psalm 128:3
Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Songs 4:4
Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.

Songs 7:4
Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.

Lexicon
Then
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

our sons
בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ (bā·nê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

will be like plants
כִּנְטִעִים֮ (kin·ṭi·‘îm)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5195: A plant

nurtured
מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים (mə·ḡud·dā·lîm)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1431: To grow up, become great

in their youth,
בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם (bin·‘ū·rê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5271: Youth, the state, the persons

our daughters
בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ (bə·nō·w·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

like corner pillars
כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת (ḵə·zā·wî·yōṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2106: An angle, a corner-column

carved
מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת (mə·ḥuṭ·ṭā·ḇō·wṯ)
Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2404: To cut or gather wood

to adorn
תַּבְנִ֥ית (taḇ·nîṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8403: Structure, a model, resemblance

a palace.
הֵיכָֽל׃ (hê·ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1964: A large public building, palace, temple


Additional Translations
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.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:

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;

whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:

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;

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:

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,
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