Psalms 128:2 · KJV
“For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy {shalt} thou {be}, and {it shall be} well with thee.”
— Psalms 128:2
[A Song of degrees.] Blessed {is} every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalms 128 — Context
[A Song of degrees.] Blessed {is} every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy {shalt} thou {be}, and {it shall be} well with thee.
3Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
4Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:10
Say ye to the righteous, that {it shall be} well {with him}: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah 62:8
The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn {to be} meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: {Surely...: Heb. If I give, etc}
Isaiah 65:21-23
And they shall build houses, and inhabit {them}; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
Behold {that} which I have seen: {it is} good and comely {for one} to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it {is} his portion. {It is good...: Heb. there is a good which is comely, etc} {all the days: Heb. the number of the days}
Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed {shall be} the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:11
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. {in goods: or, for good} {body: Heb. belly}
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his {days} be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: