Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
2For you will eat the labour of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
4Behold, this is how the man who fears the LORD is blessed.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 8:40The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
Psalms 127:3Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms 144:12Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Jeremiah 11:16The LORD called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
Hosea 14:6His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance 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 →