Psalms · 6 verses
Psalms 128
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A wife becomes a fruitful vine indoors, while sons arrive as olive shoots around the table: the household has turned into a small, flourishing orchard.
The household at tablevv. 1–4
The song begins with the person who fears the LORD and walks in His ways, then brings blessing down to the dinner table. Labour bears fruit, a wife flourishes like a vine within the house, and sons sit around the table as olive shoots—a domestic scene with rather more botany than most dining rooms manage.
From the house to Zionvv. 5–6
The blessing widens from the household to Zion, then to Jerusalem and the sight of children’s children. It ends not with another household image, but with a brief wish of peace upon Israel.
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Ps 128:1A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
Ps 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Ps 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Ps 128:4In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
Ps 128:5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
Ps 128:6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 61 passages were voted onto 5 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 2Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- 1Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- 1Psalms 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
- 1Psalms 103:13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
- 2Isaiah 62:8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
- 1Luke 1:50His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.
- 2Isaiah 65:21–23They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- 2Ecclesiastes 5:18–19Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
- 2Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- 1Acts 9:31Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
- 1Psalms 147:11The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
- 1Psalms 1:1–3Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
- 1Psalms 127:1A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
- 2Deuteronomy 28:11The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
- 3Ezekiel 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.
- 6Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
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