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Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears Yahweh

A song of ascents.[a]

128 Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
who walks in his ways.
You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands;
you will be happy and it will be well with you.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within[b] your house.
Your children[c] will be like olive shoots
about your table.
Look, for thus shall a man be blessed
who fears Yahweh.[d]
May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
that you may see the good of Jerusalem
all the days of your life,
and that you may see your children’s children.
May peace be upon Israel.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 128:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 128:3 Literally “in the recesses of”
  3. Psalm 128:3 Hebrew “sons”
  4. Psalm 128:4 Literally “a fearer of Yahweh”

A Song of Ascents

The Blessings of Fearing God

128 How blessed[a] are all who fear the Lord
    as they follow in his ways.
You will eat from the work of your hands;
    you will be happy, and it will go well for you.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house;
    your children[b] like olive shoots surrounding your table.
See how the man will be blessed
    who fears the Lord.

May the Lord bless you from Zion,
    and may you observe the prosperity of Jerusalem
        every day that you live!
And may you see your children’s children!
    Peace be on Israel!

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 128:1 Or happy
  2. Psalm 128:3 Lit. sons