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Psalm 128:2-4
International Children’s Bible
Psalm 128:2-4
International Children’s Bible
2 You will enjoy what you work for.
You will be blessed with good things.
3 Your wife will give you many children.
She will be like a vine that produces a lot of fruit.
Your children will bring you much good.
They will be like olive branches that produce many olives.
4 This is how the man who respects the Lord
will be blessed.
Psalm 128:2-4
New International Version
Psalm 128:2-4
New International Version
Psalm 128:2-4
New King James Version
Psalm 128:2-4
New King James Version
2 (A)When you eat the [a]labor of your hands,
You shall be happy, and it shall be (B)well with you.
3 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.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the Lord.
Footnotes
- Psalm 128:2 Fruit of the labor
Psalm 128:2-4
English Standard Version
Psalm 128:2-4
English Standard Version
2 You (A)shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife will be like (B)a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like (C)olive shoots
around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.
Psalm 128:2-4
King James Version
Psalm 128:2-4
King James Version
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
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