Verse 12
That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes: that our daughters may be as corners stones grauen after the fashion as a palace is.
Referenced Verses
- Ps 128:3 : 3 Thy wyfe shalbe as a fruitfull vine: vpon the sides of thyne house. Thy chyldren shalbe like oliue braunches: rounde about thy table.
- Prov 31:10-27 : 10 Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles. 11 The heart of her husbande may safely trust in her, so that he shall fall into no pouertie. 12 She wyll do hym good, and not euill, all the dayes of her lyfe. 13 She occupieth wooll and flaxe, and laboureth gladly with her handes. 14 She is like a marchauntes ship, that bryngeth her vittayles from a farre. 15 She is vp in the nyght season, to prouide meate for her housholde, and foode for her maydens. 16 She considereth lande, and byeth it: and with the fruite of her handes she planteth a vineyarde. 17 She girdeth her loynes with strength, and fortifieth her armes. 18 And yf she perceaue that her huswiferie doth good, her candell goeth not out by nyght. 19 She layeth her fingers to the spindle, & her hande taketh holde of the distaffe. 20 She openeth her hande to the poore, yea she stretcheth foorth her handes to such as haue neede. 21 She feareth not that the colde of wynter shall hurt her housholde, for all her housholde folkes are clothed with scarlet. 22 She maketh her selfe faire ornametes, her clothyng is white silke and purple. 23 Her husbande is much set by in the gates, when he sitteth among the rulers of the lande. 24 She maketh cloth of silke, and selleth it: and deliuereth girdles vnto the marchaunt. 25 Strength and honour is her clothing, and in the latter day she shall reioyce. 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and in her tongue is the lawe of grace. 27 She loketh well to the wayes of her housholde: and eateth not her bread with idlenesse.
- Song 8:8-9 : 8 Our sister is but young and hath no brestes: what shall we do for our sister when she shalbe spoken for? 9 If she be a wall, we shall builde a siluer bulwarke thervpon: yf she be a doore, we shall fasten her with boordes of Cedar tree.
- Isa 3:16-24 : 16 Moreouer the Lord hath said, seing the daughters of Sion are waxen proude, & walke with stretched foorth neckes, and wanton lokes, goyng and trippyng nicely, and tinckelyng with their feete: 17 Therfore shall the Lorde shaue the heades of the daughters of Sion, and shall discouer their filthinesse. 18 In that day shall the Lord take away the gorgiousnesse of the attire about their feete, & the caules, and the rounde tires after the fashion of the moone. 19 The sweete perfumes, and the bracelettes, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnettes, and the sloppes, and the head bandes, and the tablettes, and the earynges, 21 And rynges, and nose iewels: 22 The costly apparell, and the vayles, and the wimples, & the crispyng pinnes, 23 And the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoodes, and the lawnes. 24 And in steade of good smell there shalbe stincke, and in steade of their girdle a rent, and for well set heere there shalbe baldnesse, in steade of a stomacher a sacke cloth, & sunne burnyng for beautie.
- Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I shall powre water vpon the drye grounde, and riuers vpon the thirstie: I shall powre my spirite vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thy stocke: 4 They shall growe together lyke as the grasse, and as the willowes by the waters side. 5 One shal say, I am the Lordes: another shall call hym selfe after the name of Iacob: the thirde shall subscribe with his hande vnto the Lorde, and geue hym selfe vnder the name of Israel.
- Lam 4:2 : 2 The chyldren of Sion that were alway in honour, and clothed with the most precious golde: howe are they nowe become lyke the earthen vessels, whiche be made with the potters hande?
- 1 Pet 3:3-6 : 3 Whose apparel shal not be outward with brayded heere, & hanging on of gold, eyther in putting on of gorgeous apparel. 4 But let the hid man whiche is in the heart, be without all corruption, so that the spirite be at rest and quiet, whiche spirite is before god a thing much set by. 5 For after this maner in the olde tyme dyd the holy women, whiche trusted in God, tyre them selues, and were obedient vnto theyr husbandes. 6 Euen as Sara obeyed Abraham, and called hym Lorde, whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afrayde for any terrour.
- Job 42:15 : 15 In al the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.
- Ps 115:14-15 : 14 God wyll encrease you more and more: both you and also your children. 15 Ye are the blessed of God: which made heauen and earth.
- Ps 127:4-5 : 4 Like as arrowes be in the hande of the strong: euen so are the chyldren of youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath filled his quiuer with them: they shall not be ashamed when they speake with their enemies in the gate.