Psalms 128:3

Verse

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Free Bible Version

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your 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.

King James (Authorized) Version

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

One Unity Resource Bible

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

Translation for Translators

Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM]; she will give birth to many children. Your children who sit around your table will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it [SIM].

Unlocked Literal Bible

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in your house; your children will be like olive plants as they sit around your table.

Noah Webster Bible

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.

Context

The Blessed Fear of the LORD

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.

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Summary

This verse speaks of the blessings that come from a fruitful and flourishing family life. It symbolizes the joy and fulfillment that parents experience when their children walk in the ways of the Lord. The imagery of children being like olive shoots around the table conveys a sense of growth, vitality, and unity within the family. It also reflects the idea of continuity and legacy, as olive trees were highly valued in biblical times for their longevity and productivity. Overall, the verse highlights the importance of faithfulness to God's ways in building a strong and blessed family.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

by the sides--or, "within" (Psa 48:2). olive plants--are peculiarly luxuriant (Psa 52:8).

John Gill Bible Commentary

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house,.... The vine being a weak and tender tree, which needs propping and supporting; and often is fastened to the sides of a house, to which the allusion here is; whereunto it cleaves, and on which it runs up, and bears very agreeable fruit; it is properly used to express the weakness and tenderness of the female sex, their fruitfulness in bearing children, and their care of domestic affairs, being keepers at home; see Pe1 3:7. Kimchi observes, that the vine is the only tree men plant within doors; which, when it is grown up, they bring out at a hole or window of the house without, to have the sun and air; and so its root is within the house, and the branches without: and he observes, that a modest woman is within the house, and does not go without, and is only seen by her husband; but her children, like the branches of the vine, go out to work. This may be applied to Christ and his church; to him the other characters agree: he, as man, is one that feared the Lord; the grace of fear was in him; the spirit of fear rested on him; and he was in the exercise of it, and walked in all the ways of the Lord, Isa 11:1; he now sees and enjoys the travail or labour of his soul to satisfaction, and is made most blessed for evermore, Isa 53:11. The church is the bride, the Lamb's wife, the spouse of Christ; and may be compared to a vine for her weakness in herself, her fruitfulness in grace and good works, and in bringing forth souls to Christ, through the ministry of the word; all which is pleasant and grateful to him; see Psa 80:14; thy children like olive plants round about thy table; a numerous offspring was always accounted a very great blessing; and it must be very pleasant to a parent to see his children round about his table, placed in their proper order according to their age, partaking of what it is furnished with: Job, in his time of prosperity, had many children; and, next to the presence of the Almighty with him, he mentions this of his children being about him; see Job 1:2. This may be applied to the spiritual seed and offspring of Christ, which are like to olive trees or olive plants; to which David is compared, Psa 52:8; the two anointed ones in Zac 4:11; the two witnesses in Rev 11:4; and all true believers in Christ may; because of their excellency, these being choice plants; because of their fruitfulness and beauty; because of their fatness, and having oil in them; and because of their perpetuity, being ever green; see Jer 11:16. Now Christ has a table, which he has well furnished, at which he himself sits, and places these his children all around; and whom he welcomes to the entertainment he makes, and takes delight and pleasure in them, Sol 1:12. Kimchi observes, the olive trees do not admit of a graft from other trees; see Rom 11:24; and so this denotes the legitimacy of those children, being free from all suspicion of being spurious, being born of such a wife as before described; and being green and moist all the year long, denotes their continuance in good works.

Psalms 128:3

The Blessed Fear of the LORD

Scripture
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Berean Standard Bible

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Free Bible Version

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your 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.

King James (Authorized) Version

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

One Unity Resource Bible

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

Translation for Translators

Unlocked Literal Bible

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in your house; your children will be like olive plants as they sit around your table.

Noah Webster Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

by the sides--or, "within" (Psa 48:2). olive plants--are peculiarly luxuriant (Psa 52:8).

John Gill Bible Commentary

Psalms 128:3

Verse

Context

The Blessed Fear of the LORD

Sermons

Summary

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Psalms 128:3

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes