Psalms 115:14

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“May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.”

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BSBPD

“May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Jehovah addeth to you, to you, and to your sons.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 115:14 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 13:16I 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.
  2. Genesis 17:7I 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.
  3. Deuteronomy 1:11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
  4. 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?”
  5. Isaiah 2:2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
  6. Isaiah 19:20It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.
  7. Isaiah 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
  8. Isaiah 56:8Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
  9. Isaiah 60:4Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
  10. Jeremiah 30:19Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
  11. Jeremiah 32:38They will be My people, and I will be their God.
  12. Jeremiah 33:22As 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.”
  13. Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  14. Zechariah 8:20This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—
  15. Zechariah 10:8I will whistle for them to gather,for I have redeemed them;and they will be as numerousas they once were.
  16. Acts 2:39This 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.”
  17. Acts 3:25And 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.’
  18. Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
  19. Revelation 7:9After 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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