Psalm 128:2 “For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity wil…”

Psalm 128:2

For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

American Standard Version

For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

When thou eatest the labours of thine hands, thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy [art] thou, and good [is] to thee.

Bible in Basic English

You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

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Cross references

“thou shalt eat”

Isaiah 62:8 Isaiah 65:21–23 Deuteronomy 28:4 Deuteronomy 28:11 Isaiah 65:13 Deuteronomy 28:51

Isaiah 62:8 · BSB

The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

Isaiah 65:21–23 · BSB

They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:4 · BSB

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:11 · BSB

The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

Isaiah 65:13 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

Deuteronomy 28:51 · BSB

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused…

“and it shall”

Isaiah 3:10 Ecclesiastes 8:12 1 Corinthians 15:58 Ephesians 6:3 Jeremiah 22:15

Isaiah 3:10 · BSB

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Ecclesiastes 8:12 · BSB

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.

1 Corinthians 15:58 · BSB

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Ephesians 6:3 · BSB

“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

Jeremiah 22:15 · BSB

Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

Also

Psalm 109:11

Psalm 109:11 · BSB

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

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