Psalms 115:14

14 May the LORD cause you to flourish, both you and your children.

Psalms 115:14 in Other Translations

KJV
14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
ESV
14 May the LORD give you increase, you and your children!
NLT
14 May the LORD richly bless both you and your children.
MSG
14 Oh, let God enlarge your families - giving growth to you, growth to your children.
CSB
14 May the Lord add to [your numbers], both yours and your children's.

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 remembers us and will bless us: He will bless his people Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron,
13 he will bless those who fear the LORD— small and great alike.
14 May the LORD cause you to flourish, both you and your children.
15 May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
16 The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.

Cross References 1

  • 1. Deuteronomy 1:11
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