Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. New Living Translation Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine, flourishing within your home. Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table. English Standard Version Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Berean Standard Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. King James Bible Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. New King James Version Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the very heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table. New American Standard Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table. NASB 1995 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table. NASB 1977 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine, Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table. Legacy Standard Bible Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the innermost parts of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table. Amplified Bible Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine Within the innermost part of your house; Your children will be like olive plants Around your table. Christian Standard Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children, like young olive trees around your table. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your sons, like young olive trees 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Your wife is like a glorious vine on the outside of your house, your children like plants of olive trees around your table! Brenton Septuagint Translation Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table. Contemporary English Version Your wife will be as fruitful as a grapevine, and just as an olive tree is rich with olives, your home will be rich with healthy children. Douay-Rheims Bible Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. English Revised Version Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thine house: thy children like olive plants, round about thy table. GOD'S WORD® Translation Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table. Good News Translation Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in your home, and your children will be like young olive trees around your table. International Standard Version Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table. JPS Tanakh 1917 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, round about thy table. Literal Standard Version Your wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of your house, | Your sons as olive plants around your table. Majority Standard Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. New American Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your home, Your children like young olive plants around your table. NET Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table. New Revised Standard Version Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. New Heart English Bible Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. Webster's Bible Translation Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house: thy children like olive plants around 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. 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Blessed Are All who Walk in His Ways…2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. 3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. 4In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.… Cross References Psalm 52:8 But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever. Psalm 127:5 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. Psalm 128:4 In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD. Psalm 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace. Ezekiel 19:10 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. Treasury of Scripture Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table. a fruitful vine Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: Proverbs 5:15-18 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well… Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. olive plants Psalm 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. Psalm 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. round about Psalm 127:5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. Jump to Previous Children Fertile Fruitful House Inner Innermost Olive Part Parts Plants Round Shoots Sides Table Vine Wife WithinJump to Next Children Fertile Fruitful House Inner Innermost Olive Part Parts Plants Round Shoots Sides Table Vine Wife WithinPsalm 128 1. The various blessings which follow those who fear God(3) By the sides--No doubt the inner part of the house is meant (see Psalm 48:2)--the gynec?um or woman's quarter--or perhaps the sides of the inner court or quadrangle. This is no more out of keeping with the figure of the vine than the table is with that of olive plants. Though the Hebrews had not yet developed the fatal habit of secluding their women, as later Orientals have done, still there was a strict custom which allotted a more private tent (Genesis 18:9) or part of a house to them. And doubtless we are here also to think of the good housewife who is engaged within at the household duties, and is not like the idle gossip, sitting "at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city" (Proverbs 9:14). The vine and olive are in Hebrew poetry frequent symbols of fruitfulness and of a happy, flourishing state. (See Psalm 52:8; Jeremiah 11:16.) The comparison of children to the healthy young shoots of a tree is, of course, common to all poetry, being indeed latent in such expressions as "scion of a noble house." (Comp. Euripides, Medea 1,098: "a sweet young shoot of children.")Verse 3. - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides (rather, in the inner chambers) of thine house. The second point of blessedness is a fruitful wife, content to dwell in the female apartments of the house, to keep at home (Titus 2:5) and guide the household. Thy children like olive plants; or, "olive shoots" - the vigorous offsets from an aged olive tree, which spring up around it, ready to take its place. Round about thy table. Clustering around thy board, at once a source of cheerfulness and strength (see Psalm 127:5). This is the third point of blessedness. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your wifeאֶשְׁתְּךָ֤ ׀ (’eš·tə·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female will be like a fruitful פֹּרִיָּה֮ (pō·rî·yāh) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 6509: To bear fruit, be fruitful vine כְּגֶ֥פֶן (kə·ḡe·p̄en) Preposition-k | Noun - common singular Strong's 1612: A vine, the grape [flourishing] within בְּיַרְכְּתֵ֪י (bə·yar·kə·ṯê) Preposition-b | Noun - fdc Strong's 3411: Flank, side, extreme parts, recesses your house, בֵ֫יתֶ֥ךָ (ḇê·ṯe·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1004: A house your sons בָּ֭נֶיךָ (bā·ne·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1121: A son like olive זֵיתִ֑ים (zê·ṯîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2132: An olive, the tree, the branch, the berry shoots כִּשְׁתִלֵ֣י (kiš·ṯi·lê) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 8363: A transplanted shoot, slip [sitting] around סָ֝בִ֗יב (sā·ḇîḇ) Adverb Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around your table. לְשֻׁלְחָנֶֽךָ׃ (lə·šul·ḥā·ne·ḵā) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 7979: A table, a meal Links Psalm 128:3 NIVPsalm 128:3 NLT Psalm 128:3 ESV Psalm 128:3 NASB Psalm 128:3 KJV Psalm 128:3 BibleApps.com Psalm 128:3 Biblia Paralela Psalm 128:3 Chinese Bible Psalm 128:3 French Bible Psalm 128:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 128:3 Your wife will be as a fruitful (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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