Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding 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.
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.
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 eat from the work of your hands; you will be happy, and it will go well for you. 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table. 4 See how the man will be blessed who fears the LORD.
Cross References
Psalm 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the gracious love of God forever and ever.
Ezekiel 19:10
"Your mother was like a vine entwining a pomegranate, planted by water, full of fruit, and full of branches because it had been watered generously.
Psalm 144:12
May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace.
Genesis 49:22
"Joseph is descended from a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine planted near springs of water. His branches climb over walls.
Psalm 127:5
How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate. A Song of Ascents
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.
Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD once called you a green olive tree, with beautiful shape and fruit. With a great roaring sound, he has set fire to it and its branches will be destroyed.
Hosea 14:6-7
Israel's branches will spread out, and its beauty will be like an olive tree, with its scent like that of Lebanon.
Romans 11:24
After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!