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Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, Our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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A Vision for Children
The psalm uses powerful imagery for a blessed next generation. Commentators explain that sons are envisioned as strong, healthy 'plants,' carefully cultivated and flourishing. Daughters are compared to 'corner-stones' of a palace or temple—beautifully crafted, graceful, and essential for stability. This sets a high ideal for raising children to be strong and virtuous.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth – This means that our sons, not called forth to the hardships of the tent an…
19th Century
Anglican
That our sons.— This rendering of the relative, which so strangely begins this fragment, would be possible after Genesis 11:7;[Ref…
Baptist
Or, rather, "of a temple." This should be the prayer of every parent, that his sons may be bringing forth fruit to God, that his daughters may be f…
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16th Century
Protestant
Because our sons, and so forth. Some consider these three concluding verses to be a wish or a prayer. Others think that David congratulate…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth
The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, Syriac, and Arab…
Fresh favors call for fresh returns of thanks; we must praise God for the mercies we hope for by His promise, as well as those we have received by …
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