Psalms 128:2

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

You surely eat the labor of your hands, || You [are] blessed, and good [is] to you.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC127:2

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

GNV

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

JPS

When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

LXXE127:2

Thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.Alex. fruits of thy labours.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יְגִ֣יעַ כַּ֭פֶּיךָ כִּ֣י תֹאכֵ֑ל אַ֝שְׁרֶ֗יךָ וְט֣וֹב לָֽךְ׃

LXX-Br127:2

Τοὺς πόνους τῶν καρπῶν σου φάγεσαι· μακάριος εἶ καὶ καλῶς σοι ἔσται.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
• Isaiah 62:8The 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 65:21–23They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be…
• Ecclesiastes 5:18–19Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot. Furthermore,…
• Deuteronomy 28:4The 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 28:11The 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.
• 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, 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.
• Ecclesiastes 8:12Although 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.
• Ephesians 6:3“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
• Isaiah 65:13Therefore 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.
• Jeremiah 22:15Does 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.
• Deuteronomy 28:51They 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…
• Judges 6:3–6Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them, encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land.…
• Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
• Deuteronomy 28:39You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
• Psalms 109:11May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

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