Psalms 144:12
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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Job 42:15No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
Psalms 127:4Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.
Proverbs 31:10A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
Isaiah 3:16The 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—
Lamentations 4:2How 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!
1 Peter 3:3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:10-15
Thanksgiving and Petitions; National Happiness Desired. 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. 10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner… Read the whole commentary →