Psalms 115:14
12 The LORD is 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— small and great alike.
May the LORD give you increase, 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
- KJV
- The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
- WEB
- May the LORD increase you more and more, you and your children.
- ASV
- Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.
- DARBY
- Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children.
- BLB
- YHWH adds to you⁺—to you⁺ and to your⁺ sons!
- ÅB
- Herren la dere vokse i tall, dere og deres barn!
- OTB
- Måtte Herren la dere vokse,
dere og deres barn. - B1930
- Herren la eder vokse i tall, eder og eders barn!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 1:11
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
Read in contextActs 2:39
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
Read in contextActs 3:25
And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
Read in contextJeremiah 33:22
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
Read in contextGenesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Read in context2 Samuel 24:3
But 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?”
Read in contextGenesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Read in contextRevelation 7:9
After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
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