Psalm 128:3 {127:3}
Good News Translation
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in your home, and your children will be like young olive trees around your table.

New Revised Standard Version
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Contemporary English Version
Your wife will be as fruitful as a grapevine, and just as an olive tree is rich with olives, your home will be rich with healthy children.

New American Bible
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your home, Your children like young olive plants around your table.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

a fruitful vine

Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;

Proverbs 5:15-18 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. . . .

Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

olive plants

Psalm 52:8 But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.

Psalm 144:12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

Jeremiah 11:16 The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.

Hosea 14:6,7 His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus. . . .

Romans 11:24 For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

round about

Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

Context
Blessed Are All who Walk in His Ways
2For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. 3Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.…
Cross References
Psalm 52:8
But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.

Psalm 127:5
Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 128:4
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

Psalm 144:12
Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

Ezekiel 19:10
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

Psalm 128:2
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