The Blessed Fear of the LORD
Psalms 128:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- KJV
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- WEB
- Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
- ASV
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
- LSV
- Your wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of your house, || Your sons as olive plants around your table.
- YLT
- Thy wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.
- DBY
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
- DRC127:3
- Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house.
- GNV
- Thy wife shalbe as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine house, and thy children like the oliue plantes round about thy table.
- JPS
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.
- LXXE127:3
- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֶשְׁתְּךָ֤ ׀ כְּגֶ֥פֶן פֹּרִיָּה֮ בְּיַרְכְּתֵ֪י בֵ֫יתֶ֥ךָ בָּ֭נֶיךָ כִּשְׁתִלֵ֣י זֵיתִ֑ים סָ֝בִ֗יב לְשֻׁלְחָנֶֽךָ׃
- LXX-Br127:3
- Ἡ γυνή σου ὡς ἄμπελος εὐθηνοῦσα ἐν ταῖς κλίτεσι τῆς οἰκίας σου· οἱ υἱοί σου ὡς νεόφυτα ἐλαιῶν κύκλῳ τῆς τραπέζης σου.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- Psalms 52:8But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
- Romans 11:24For 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!
- Proverbs 5:15–18Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with…
- Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Jeremiah 11:16The 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.
- Psalms 144:12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
- Hosea 14:6–7His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon. They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will…
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 127:3 in some Bibles
- 128:3 in most Bibles