Psalms 128:2

You will be able to earn the money that you [MTY] need to buy food; you will be happy and you will be prosperous.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

In Context

1◄Happy are/Yahweh is pleased with► those of you who revere him and do what he wants you to do [IDM].

3Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM]; she will give birth to many children. Your children who sit around your table will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it [SIM].

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:4He will bless you by giving you many children [IDM] and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:11“And Yahweh will cause you to prosper very much. He will give you many children [IDM], many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he vowed to our ancestors that he would give to you.

Deuteronomy 28:51They will kill and eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will ◄starve/die because you do not have anything to eat►. They will not leave for you any grain or wine or olive oil or cattle or sheep; and you will all die from hunger.

Psalms 1:3They constantly produce/do things that please God just like fruit trees that have been planted along the banks of a stream produce fruit at the right time every year. Like trees that never wither, they succeed in everything that they do.

Ecclesiastes 5:18So, the best thing for people to do here on the earth during the few years that God allows them to be alive is to eat and drink and to enjoy their work, because those are the things that God has given to them.

Isaiah 3:10Yahweh told me to tell the righteous people that good things will happen to them; they will enjoy the blessings that they will receive for their good deeds.

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 →

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