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Psalm 128:2–3

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128:2You3 will eat what you worked so hard to grow.4

You will be blessed and secure.5

128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine6

in the inner rooms of your house;

your children7 will be like olive branches,

as they sit all around your table.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 The psalmist addresses the representative God-fearing man, as indicated by the references to “your wife” (v. 3) and “the man” (v. 4), as well as the second masculine singular pronominal and verbal forms in vv. 2–6.
  2. 4 Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”
  3. 5 Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”
  4. 6 The metaphor of the fruitful vine pictures the wife as fertile; she will give her husband numerous children (see the next line).
  5. 7 One could translate “sons” (see Ps 127:3 and the note on the word “sons” there), but here the term seems to refer more generally to children of both genders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.