Psalm 128:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

A fruitful vine

Genesis 49:22

Proverbs 5:15

Ezekiel 19:10

Olive plants

Romans 11:24

Round about

Psalm 127:5

General references

Genesis 1:22

Genesis 26:5

Deuteronomy 28:4

Bible References

A fruitful vine

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

"'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

Olive plants

But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I continually trust in God's loyal love.

Then our sons will be like plants, that quickly grow to full size. Our daughters will be like corner pillars, carved like those in a palace.

I, the Lord, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Round about

How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.

General references

God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

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.