Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots 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.
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 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands; O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be. 3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table. 4 Lo, thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the LORD.
Cross References
Psalm 52:8
As for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God, my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever.
Ezekiel 19:10
"As for thy mother, she is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waterside: her fruits and branches are grown out of many waters,
Psalm 144:12
that our sons may grow up as the young plants, and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple;
Genesis 49:22
"That flourishing child, Joseph; that flourishing child, and goodly unto the eye! The daughters come forth to bear rule;
Psalm 127:5
Happy is the man, that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink of the water of thine own well, and of the rivers that run out of thine own springs.
Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD called thee a green olive tree, a fair one, a fruitful one, a goodly one: but now that there is a contrary report of thee abroad, he will burn thee up, and destroy thy branches.
Hosea 14:6-7
His branches shall run out, and as an olive tree shall his glory be, and his savour as Lebanon.
Romans 11:24
For if thou wast cut out of a natural wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature in a true olive tree: how much more shall the natural branches be graffed in their own olive tree again?