Parallel Verses
Amplified
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
Within the innermost part of your house;
Your children will be like olive plants
Around your table.
New American Standard Bible
Your children like
Around your table.
King James Version
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Holman Bible
within your house,
your sons, like young olive trees
around your table.
International Standard Version
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table.
A Conservative Version
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of thy house, thy sons like olive plants round about thy table.
American Standard Version
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
Darby Translation
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
Julia Smith Translation
Thy wife as a vine bearing fruit in the sides of thy house: thy sons as plants of olives round about thy table.
King James 2000
Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots about your table.
Modern King James verseion
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your sons shall be like olive plants around your table.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table.
NET Bible
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.
New Heart English Bible
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
The Emphasized Bible
Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house, - Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, round about thy table.
Webster
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house: thy children like olive plants around thy table.
World English Bible
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.
Themes
Children » Precious » Esteemed highly
Children » Promised to the righteous
Home » Children » Esteemed highly
Olive » Figurative » Of prosperity
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of children of pious parents
Topics
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 128:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessings For Those Who Fear God
2
For you shall eat the fruit of [the labor of] your hands,
You will be happy and blessed and it will be well with you.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
Within the innermost part of your house;
Your children will be like olive plants
Around your table.
Behold, for so shall the man be blessed and divinely favored
Who fears the Lord [and worships Him with obedience].
Cross References
Psalm 52:8
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust [confidently] in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
Ezekiel 19:10
‘Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your
Planted by the waters;
It was fruitful and full of branches
Because of abundant water.
Psalm 144:12
Let our sons in their youth be like plants full grown,
And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace;
Genesis 49:22
“Joseph is a fruitful bough (a main branch of the vine),
A fruitful bough by a spring (a well, a fountain);
Its branches run over the wall [influencing others].
Psalm 127:5
How blessed [happy and fortunate] is the man whose quiver is filled with them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies [in gatherings] at the [city] gate.
Proverbs 5:15-18
And fresh running water from your own well.
Jeremiah 11:16
The Lord [acknowledged you once as worthy and] called your name,
“A green olive tree, fair and beautiful in fruit and form”;
But with the roar of a great tempest
He has set fire to it,
And its branches are worthless.
Hosea 14:6-7
His shoots will sprout,
And his beauty will be like the olive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
Romans 11:24
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier will it be to graft these who are the natural branches back into [the original parent stock of] their own olive tree?