Psalms 128:5
I wish/hope that Yahweh will bless all of you from where he dwells ◄on Zion Hill/ in Jerusalem► and that you will see the people of Jerusalem prospering every day that you live!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
4Every man who reveres Yahweh will be blessed like that.
Cross References
Psalms 20:2I desire/hope that he will reach out from his sacred temple and help you, and aid you from where he lives on Zion Hill.
Psalms 118:26Yahweh, bless the one who will come with your authority [MTY]. And from the temple we ◄bless/ ask Yahweh to bless► all of you.
Psalms 134:3And I want Yahweh, who created heaven and the earth, to bless you from where he lives in the temple on Zion Hill.
Isaiah 2:3People from many people-groups will say to each other, “Come, let’s go up to the hill, to the temple of Yahweh, to worship the God whom Jacob worshiped. There Yahweh will teach us what he desires us to know, in order that our behavior will please him. His teaching will be given to us in Jerusalem, and we will take his message from Jerusalem to other places/nations.
Ephesians 1:3Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of our relationship with Christ, he has blessed us spiritually in every way by giving us blessings that come from heaven.
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 →