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Psalms 128:3

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1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 19:10

    Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

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  • Psalms 52:8

    But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

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  • Romans 11:24

    For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

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  • Proverbs 5:15–18

    Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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  • Genesis 49:22

    Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

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  • Jeremiah 11:16

    The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

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  • Hosea 14:6–7

    His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

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  • Psalms 144:12

    That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

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