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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine[a]
in the inner rooms of your house;
your children[b] will be like olive branches,
as they sit all around your table.
Yes indeed, the man who fears the Lord
will be blessed in this way.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 128:3 sn The metaphor of the fruitful vine pictures the wife as fertile; she will give her husband numerous children (see the next line).
  2. Psalm 128:3 tn One could translate “sons” (see Ps 127:3 and the note on the word “sons” there), but here the term seems to refer more generally to children of both genders.
  3. Psalm 128:4 tn Heb “look, indeed thus will the man, the fearer of the Lord, be blessed.”