Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots about 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.
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.
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.
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 You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you [will be] happy and [it will be] well with you. 3 Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots about your table. 4 Look, for thus shall a man be blessed {who fears Yahweh}.
Cross References
Psalm 52:8
But I [am] like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God. I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.
Ezekiel 19:10
Your mother [was] like the vine in your vineyard; planted {fruitfully} beside water, and it was full of branches from many waters.
Psalm 144:12
that our sons [may be] like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,
Genesis 49:22
Joseph [is] the bough of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough by a spring. His branches climb over the wall.
Psalm 127:5
Blessed [is] the man who fills his quiver with them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with enemies at the gate.
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink water from your [own] cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well.
Jeremiah 11:16
Yahweh called your name, 'A leafy olive tree, {beautiful with fine fruit}.' With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing.
Hosea 14:6-7
His new plant shoots will spread out; his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his scent like the [trees of] Lebanon.
Romans 11:24
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?