Psalm 128:3 “Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house,…”

Psalm 128:3

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

World English Bible

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.

American Standard Version

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy wife shalbe as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine house, and thy children like the oliue plantes round about thy table.

Darby Translation

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.

Young's Literal Translation

Thy wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

Bible in Basic English

Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

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Cross references

“a fruitful vine”

Ezekiel 19:10 Genesis 49:22 Proverbs 5:15–18

Ezekiel 19:10 · BSB

Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

Genesis 49:22 · BSB

Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

Proverbs 5:15–18 · BSB

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

“olive plants”

Psalm 52:8 Romans 11:24 Jeremiah 11:16 Psalm 144:12 Hosea 14:6 Hosea 14:7

Psalm 52:8 · BSB

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

Romans 11:24 · BSB

For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

Jeremiah 11:16 · BSB

The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.

Psalm 144:12 · BSB

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Hosea 14:6 · BSB

His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

Hosea 14:7 · BSB

They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

“round about”

Psalm 127:5

Psalm 127:5 · BSB

Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.

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

In context

2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

4In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.

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