God’s Word Translation
Psalms 115:14
14May the Lord continue to bless you and your children.
Psalms 115:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
- New International Version (NIV)May the Lord cause you to flourish, both you and your children.
- English Standard Version (ESV)May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
- New King James Version (NKJV)May the Lord give you increase more and more, You and your children.
Context of Psalms 115:14
12The Lord, who is ⌞always⌟ thinking about us, will bless us. He will bless the descendants of Israel. He will bless the descendants of Aaron. 13He will bless those who fear the Lord, from the least important to the most important. May the Lord continue to bless you and your children. 15You will be blessed by the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. 16The highest heaven belongs to the Lord, but he has given the earth to the descendants of Adam.
Read all of Psalms 115Psalms 115:14 word by word
יֹסֵ֣ף יְהוָ֣ה עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם וְעַל־בְּנֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 115:14
- Genesis 13:16I will also give you as many descendants as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust of the earth, then he could also count your descendants.
- 2 Samuel 24:3Joab responded to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the people a hundred times over, and may Your Majesty ⌞live⌟ to see it. But why does Your Majesty wish to do this?”
- Isaiah 2:2In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established as the highest of the mountains and raised above the hills. All the nations will stream to it.
- Isaiah 27:6In times to come Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom, bud, and fill the whole world with fruit.
- Isaiah 19:20These objects will be a sign and a witness that the Lord of Armies is in Egypt. When the people cry to the Lord because of those who oppress them, he will send a savior and defender to rescue them.
- Isaiah 56:8The Almighty Lord, who gathers the scattered people of Israel, declares, “I will gather still others besides those I have already gathered.”
- Isaiah 60:4“Look up, look around, and watch. All of your people assemble and come to you. Your sons come from far away. Your daughters are carried in their arms.
- Jeremiah 30:19The people who live there will sing songs of praise, and the sound of laughter will be heard from there. I’ll make them numerous, and their number won’t decrease. I’ll bring them honor, and they won’t be considered unimportant.
- Jeremiah 33:22I will multiply the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who serve me like the stars of heaven that cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore that cannot be measured.”
- Hosea 1:10“Yet, the Israelites will become as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore. No one will be able to measure them or count them. Wherever they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be told, ‘You are the children of the living God.’
- Zechariah 8:20This is what the Lord of Armies says: People and citizens from many cities are going to come.
- Zechariah 10:8I will signal them with a whistle and gather them because I have reclaimed them. They will be as numerous as they have ever been.
- Revelation 7:4I heard how many were sealed: 144,000. Those who were sealed were from every tribe of the people of Israel:
- Genesis 17:7I will make my promise to you and your descendants for generations to come as an everlasting promise. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
- Jeremiah 32:38They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and to your children and to everyone who is far away. It belongs to everyone who worships the Lord our God.”
Commentaries on Psalms 115:14
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14The Lord shall increase you more and more - He will increase your numbers and your power. We may suppose that the people were greatly diminished by the captivity, and that on their return to their country their number was comparatively small. This promise of a great increase was in accordance with the cherished wishes of the Hebrew people, and with the repeated promises which God had made to their fathers. Compare Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17; Genesis…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 It is folly to trust in dead images, but it is wisdom to trust in the living God, for he is a help and a shield to those that trust in him. Wherever there is right fear of God, there may be cheerful faith in him; those who reverence his word, may rely upon it. He is ever found faithful. The greatest need his blessing, and it shall not be denied to the meanest that fear him. God's blessing gives an increase, especially in spiritual blessings…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-15The psalmist blesses (Psalm 107:37–38, 41) all who trust in and fear the Lord. The Creator will care for the families of those who fear him. the Maker of heaven and earth: This phrase speaks about how the Lord created everything and has power over all creation.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Opposed to the decrease pending and during the captivity.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 115
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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