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You will surely eat
what your hands have worked for.(A)
You will be happy,
and it will go well for you.(B)
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house,
your children, like young olive trees
round your table.(C)
In this very way
the man who fears the Lord
will be blessed.(D)

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(A)When you eat the [a]labor of your hands,
You shall be happy, and it shall be (B)well with you.
Your wife shall be (C)like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of your house,
Your (D)children (E)like olive plants
All around your table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 128:2 Fruit of the labor

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

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

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

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You will eat the fruit of your labor;(A)
    blessings and prosperity(B) will be yours.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine(C)
    within your house;
your children(D) will be like olive shoots(E)
    around your table.
Yes, this will be the blessing(F)
    for the man who fears the Lord.(G)

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