Psalms 128:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.”
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“Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thy wife <FI>is<Fi> as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 128:3 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- 1 Chronicles 8:40Ulam was his firstborn, Jeush second, and Eliphelet third. The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and they had many sons and grandsons—150 in all. All these were the descendants of Benjamin.
- Psalms 52:8But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
- Psalms 127:3Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
- Psalms 144:12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- Jeremiah 11:16The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
- Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- Hosea 14:6His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
- Romans 11:24For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
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