Psalms 128:2
1 Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
4 In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
- KJV
- For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
- WEB
- For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
- ASV
- For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
- DARBY
- For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
- BLB
- The labor of your hands, surely you shall eat; blessings and good [are] unto you.
- ÅB
- Frukten av dine henders arbeid skal du nyte; lykksalig er du, og det går deg vel.
- OTB
- Du skal spise frukten av dine henders arbeid;
Du skal være lykkelig, og det skal gå deg vel. - B1930
- Frukten av dine henders arbeid skal du nyte; lykksalig er du, og det går dig vel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Read in contextIsaiah 62:8
The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
Read in contextIsaiah 65:21–23
They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 5:18–19
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:4
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:11
The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 8:12
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
Read in context