Psalms 128:3
Like a fruitful vine shall your wife be in the innermost room of your house: your children, like olive shoots, round about your table.
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2You will eat what your hands have toiled for, and be happy and prosperous!
4See! This is the blessing of the man who reveres the Lord.
Cross References
Psalms 127:3Children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward.
Psalms 144:12May our sons in their youth be as plants well tended: our daughters like cornices carved as in palaces.
Hosea 14:6his saplings will spread out, his beauty will be like that of the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of 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 →