Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
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2You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
4See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 8:40And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.
Psalms 127:3See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.
Psalms 144:12Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
Jeremiah 11:16You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.
Hosea 14:6\14:5\I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 128:2-6
Blessedness of the Godly. 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. 3 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. 6 Yea, thou shalt… Read the whole commentary →