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Psalm 128:2–4

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2When you shall aeat of the 1bfruit of the labor of your hands,

How blessed will you be and chow well will it be for you.

3Your wife shall be like a afruitful vine

In the innermost parts of your house,

Your children like bolive plants

All around your table.

4Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed

Who fears Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit labor

Cross references

  1. aIs 3:10
  2. bPs 109:11; Hag 2:17
  3. cEccl 8:12; Eph 6:3
  4. aEzek 19:10
  5. bPs 52:8; 144:12

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;

you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine

within your house;

your children will be like olive shoots

around your table.

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed

who fears the Lord.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You will eat the fruit of your labor;

blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine

within your house;

your children will be like olive shoots

around your table.

Yes, this will be the blessing

for the man who fears the Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You will surely eat

what your hands have worked for.

You will be happy,

and it will go well for you.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine

within your house,

your children, like young olive trees

around your table.

In this very way

the man who fears the Lord

will be blessed.

NLTNew Living Translation

You will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

How joyful and prosperous you will be!

Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine,

flourishing within your home.

Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees

as they sit around your table.

That is the Lord’s blessing

for those who fear him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands;

you will be happy and it will be well with you.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine

within your house.

Your children will be like olive shoots

about your table.

Look, for thus shall a man be blessed

who fears Yahweh.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.