Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
New American Standard Bible
You will be happy and
King James Version
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Holman Bible
what your hands have worked for.
You will be happy,
and it will go well for you.
International Standard Version
You will eat from the work of your hands; you will be happy, and it will go well for you.
A Conservative Version
For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.
American Standard Version
For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Amplified
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.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy thou, and well to thee.
King James 2000
For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you [will be] happy and [it will be] well with you.
Modern King James verseion
For you shall surely eat the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and all is well with you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands; O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.
NET Bible
You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
New Heart English Bible
For you will eat the labor of your hands; you will be blessed, and it will be well with you.
Webster
For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
World English Bible
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
Youngs Literal Translation
The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee.
Themes
Children » Promised to the righteous
Happiness » General references to
Happiness of saints in this life » Is derived from » Fear of God
Labor » Who shall eat the fruits of their labor
Topics
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 128:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessings For Those Who Fear God
1 {A Song of degrees.} Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah, that walketh in his ways. 2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:10
Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;
Ephesians 6:3
that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:11
And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy 28:39
Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather the fruit; for the worms shall eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:51
and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Judges 6:3-6
For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them;
Psalm 109:11
Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
Behold what I have seen good and comely: it is to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith man laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
Isaiah 62:8
Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn to be food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured;
Isaiah 65:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, my servants shall eat, and ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, and ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed;
Isaiah 65:21-23
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof:
Jeremiah 22:15
Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.