New Revised Standard Version
May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars, cut for the building of a palace.

Contemporary English Version
Let's pray that our young sons will grow like strong plants and that our daughters will be as lovely as columns in the corner of a palace.

New American Bible
May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, Our daughters, like carved columns, shapely as those of the temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

as plants

Psalm 115:14,15 May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children. . . .

Psalm 127:4,5 As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken. . . .

Psalm 128:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Isaiah 44:3-5 For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock. . . .

Lamentations 4:2 Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that were clothed with the best gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the potter's hands?

as corner stones

Job 42:15 And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Proverbs 31:10-27 Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. . . .

Isaiah 3:16-24 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: . . .

polished.

Songs 8:8,9 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to? . . .

1 Peter 3:3-6 Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: . . .