Psalms 128:3
1 Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
2 For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
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.
5 May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- KJV
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- WEB
- Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
- ASV
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
- DARBY
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
- BLB
- Your wife [is] fruitful like a vine in the sides of your house, your sons like shoots of olive trees round about your table.
- ÅB
- Din hustru er som et fruktbart vintre der inne i ditt hus, dine barn som oljekvister rundt om ditt bord.
- OTB
- Din hustru skal være som en fruktbar vintre innenfor ditt hjem,
Dine barn som unge olivenskudd rundt ditt bord. - B1930
- Din hustru er som et fruktbart vintre der inne i ditt hus, dine barn som oljekvister rundt om ditt bord.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 19:10
Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
Read in contextPsalms 52:8
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
Read in contextRomans 11:24
For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
Read in contextProverbs 5:15–18
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Read in contextGenesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
Read in contextJeremiah 11:16
The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
Read in contextHosea 14:6–7
His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Read in contextPsalms 144:12
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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