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. 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. 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. Majority Standard Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting 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 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionYour wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of your house, "" Your sons as olive plants 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. Smith's Literal Translation Thy wife as a vine bearing fruit in the sides of thy house: thy sons as plants of olives round about thy table. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your home, Your children like young olive plants 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. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleYour wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants round about your table. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Your wife is like a glorious vine on the outside of your house, your children like plants of olive trees around your table! OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, round about thy 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. 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 Proverbs 31:28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well: Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.” Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Genesis 15:5 And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.” Genesis 17:6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies. Genesis 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.” Genesis 49:25 by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb. Exodus 23:26 No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days. Deuteronomy 28:4 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 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. 1 Samuel 2:20 And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home. 1 Kings 4:25 Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree. Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring. Jeremiah 29:6 Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease. 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 GodYour wife In the Hebrew text, the word for "wife" is "אִשְׁתְּךָ" (ishtekha), which denotes a woman who is married. In the context of ancient Israel, marriage was a covenantal relationship, reflecting the covenant between God and His people. The wife is seen as a partner and a blessing, emphasizing the importance of family and the role of the wife in the household. This reflects the biblical view of marriage as a sacred institution ordained by God. will be like a fruitful vine within your house your sons will be like olive shoots around your table 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.) |