Psalms 115:14

14 May the LORD 1give you increase, You and your children.

Psalms 115:14 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 115:14

The Lord shall increase you more and more
The Word of the Lord, as the Targum, shall do it; in a temporal sense, with a numerous posterity, with riches, wealth, and honour; and in a spiritual sense, with an addition of spiritual blessings; with renewed instances of divine layout: with an increase of the gifts and graces of the Spirit of God, as faith, hope, love, joy, patience, humility, and other graces; and with more knowledge of God and Christ, and of divine and spiritual things.

You and your children;
not only they that feared the Lord of the present generation, but those that should succeed them, and be as they were, a seed to serve the Lord, and who should be accounted to him for a generation.

Psalms 115:14 In-Context

12 The LORD has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear the LORD , The small together with the great.
14 May the LORD give you increase, You and your children.
15 May you be blessed of the LORD , Maker of heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the heavens of the LORD , But the earth He has given to the sons of men.

Cross References 1

  • 1. Deuteronomy 1:11
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