Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine 1 in your house; 1 your children will be like olive plants 1 as they sit around your table. 1
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2What your hands provide, you will enjoy; 1 you will be blessed and prosper. 1
4Yes, indeed, the man will be blessed 1 who honors Yahweh. 1
Cross References
1 Chronicles 8:40Ulam's sons were fighting men and archers. They had many sons and grandsons, a total of 150. All these belonged to the descendants of Benjamin.
Psalms 127:3See, children are a heritage from Yahweh, 1 and the fruit of the womb is a reward from him. 1
Psalms 144:12May our sons be like plants who grow to full size in their youth 1 and our daughters like carved corner pillars, shapely like those of a palace. 1
Jeremiah 11:16In the past Yahweh called you a leafy olive tree, beautiful with lovely fruit. 1 But he will light a fire on it that will sound like the roar of a storm; its branches will be broken.
Hosea 14:6His branches will spread out; 1 his beauty will be like the olive trees, 1 and his fragrance like the cedars in Lebanon. 1
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 →