Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around 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.
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.
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 The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee. 3 Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table. 4 Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.
Cross References
Psalm 52:8
And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,
Ezekiel 19:10
Thy mother is as a vine in thy blood by waters planted, Fruitful and full of boughs it hath been, Because of many waters.
Psalm 144:12
Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;
Psalm 127:5
O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
Jeremiah 11:16
'An olive, green, fair, of goodly fruit,' Hath Jehovah called thy name, At the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire against it, And broken have been its thin branches.
Hosea 14:6-7
Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.
Romans 11:24
for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?