That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace:
All Commentaries on Psalms 144:12 Go To Psalms 144
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Whose. Hebrew, "our. "This makes quite a different sense from the ancient versions, which refer what follows to the rebels, who had no cause to complain of David's government, ver. 14. (Calmet)
St. Jerome, however, agrees with the Hebrew, "that our sons may be "Protestants asher means "whose (ver. 11.) and that. "(Haydock)
If we supply, they said, the text and versions will give the same sense, (Genebrard; Berthier) as it is inserted ver. 15. (Haydock)
Decked. Hebrew, "our daughters, like corner-stones cut like a temple "(Montanus) or "palace. "(Protestants)
