Parallel Verses
NET Bible
You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
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.
Darby Translation
For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
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.
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 ascents. How blessed is every one of the Lord's loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands! 2 You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure. 3 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.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and still live a long time, yet I know that it will go well with God-fearing people -- for they stand in fear before him.
Ephesians 6:3
"that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth."
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."
Deuteronomy 28:4
Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:11
The Lord will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.
Deuteronomy 28:39
You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
Judges 6:3-6
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
Psalm 109:11
May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!
Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
I have seen personally what is the only beneficial and appropriate course of action for people: to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all their hard work on earth during the few days of their life which God has given them, for this is their reward.
Isaiah 62:8
The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: "I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.
Isaiah 65:13
So this is what the sovereign Lord says: "Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
Isaiah 65:21-23
They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Jeremiah 22:15
Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.