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Psalms 115:14
14May the Lord cause you to flourish, both 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)May the Lord richly bless both you and your children.
Context of Psalms 115:14
12The Lord remembers us and will bless us: He will bless his people Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron, 13he will bless those who fear the Lord— small and great alike. May the Lord cause you to flourish, both you and your children. 15May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 16The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.
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 make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
- 2 Samuel 24:3But Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
- Isaiah 2:2In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
- Isaiah 27:6In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
- Isaiah 19:20It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.
- Isaiah 56:8The Sovereign Lord declares— he who gathers the exiles of Israel: “I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.”
- Isaiah 60:4“Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the hip.
- Jeremiah 30:19From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honor, and they will not be disdained.
- Jeremiah 33:22I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.’ ”
- Hosea 1:10“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’
- Zechariah 8:20This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come,
- Zechariah 10:8I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.
- Revelation 7:4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
- Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Jeremiah 32:38They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Acts 2:39The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
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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