Parallel Verses
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.
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
Blessed are all who reverence Jehovah and live his way.
2
You will be happy and
Cross References
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that blessings will come to them. They will taste the fruit of their labor.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and he lives a long life, yet I know that it will be well with those who respect (reverence) God and worship him.
Ephesians 6:3
Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the earth.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
Deuteronomy 28:4
Jehovah will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:11
Jehovah will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your animals and in the produce of your ground, the land that Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:39
You will plant vineyards and tend them but will not drink the wine from them. Worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the offspring of your animals and the crops from your fields until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, no new wine, no olive oil, no calves from your herds, and no lambs or kids from your flocks. They will continue to do this until you are completely desolate.
Judges 6:3-6
When the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites along with the desert tribes attacked them.
Psalm 109:11
Let a creditor take everything he owns. Let strangers steal what he has worked for.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance).
Isaiah 62:8
Jehovah has sworn with his right hand and with his mighty arm (of power): I will never again let your enemies eat your grain, nor will foreigners drink the new wine that you produced.
Isaiah 65:13
Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: My servants will eat, but you will go hungry. My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame!
Isaiah 65:21-23
They will build houses and dwell in them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Jeremiah 22:15
Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.