Psalms 128:3 · KJV
“Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”
— Psalms 128:3
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy {shalt} thou {be}, and {it shall be} well with thee.
Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
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.
5The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Cross References
Ezekiel 19:10
Thy mother {is} like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. {in...: or, in thy quietness, or, in thy likeness}
Psalms 52:8
But I {am} like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Romans 11:24
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural {branches}, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Genesis 49:22
Joseph {is} a fruitful bough, {even} a fruitful bough by a well; {whose} branches run over the wall: {branches: Heb. daughters}
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, {and} of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
Psalms 144:12
That our sons {may be} as plants grown up in their youth; {that} our daughters {may be} as corner stones, polished {after} the similitude of a palace: {polished: Heb. cut}
Hosea 14:6-7
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. {spread: Heb. go}