Psalm 128:2–4
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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.
128:4Yes indeed, the man who fears the Lord
will be blessed in this way.8
Footnotes
- 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.
- 4 Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”
- 5 Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”
- 6 The metaphor of the fruitful vine pictures the wife as fertile; she will give her husband numerous children (see the next line).
- 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.
- 8 Heb “look, indeed thus will the man, the fearer of the Lord, be blessed.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
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.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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.
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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.
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