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12That 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:
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; …
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: …
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. …
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The method is the same in this latter part of the psalm as in the former; David first gives glory to God and then begs mercy from him. I. He praises God for the experiences he had had of his goodness to him and the encouragements he had to expect further mercy from him, Ps. 144:9 , 10 . In the midst of his complaints concerning the power and treachery of his enemies, here is a holy exultation in h…
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