Psalm 128:3
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
In other translations
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Hebrew words
אֶשְׁתְּךָ׀'eshtekhawife yourH802כְּגֶפֶןkegefen[will be] like a vineH1612פֹּרִיָּהporiyahfruitfulH6509בְּיַרְכְּתֵיbeyarketeiin [the] innermost parts ofH3411בֵיתֶךָveitekhahouse yourH1004בָּנֶיךָbaneikhachildren yourH1121כִּשְׁתִלֵיkishtilei[will be] like shoots ofH8363זֵיתִיםzeitimolive treesH2132סָבִיבsavivaroundH5439לְשֻׁלְחָנֶךָ׃leshulchanekha<to> table yourH7979
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Related verses
- Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- Psalm 52:8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
- Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Romans 11:24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
- Proverbs 5:15-1815 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. 16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
- Jeremiah 11:16The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
- Hosea 14:6-76 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.6 His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon. 7 They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
- Psalm 127:5Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
- Psalm 144:12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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