New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 128:2
2When you 1eat the 2fruit of the labor of your hands, You will be happy and 3it will go well for you.
Psalms 128:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
- New International Version (NIV)You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When you eat the labor of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
Context of Psalms 128:2
1Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, Who walks in His ways. When you eat the fruit of the labor of your hands, You will be happy and it will go well for you. 3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table. 4Behold, for so shall a man Who fears the Lord be blessed.
Read all of Psalms 128Psalms 128:2 word by word
יְגִ֣יעַ כַּ֭פֶּיךָ כִּ֣י תֹאכֵ֑ל אַ֝שְׁרֶ֗יךָ וְט֣וֹב לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 128:2
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
- Deuteronomy 28:4“Blessed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, and the offspring of your animals: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock.
- Judges 6:3For whenever Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the people of the east and march against them.
- Ecclesiastes 5:18Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink, and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
- Isaiah 62:8The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies, Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”
- Isaiah 65:13Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
- Ecclesiastes 8:12Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and may lengthen his life, still I know that it will go well for those who fear God, who fear Him openly.
- Isaiah 3:10Say to the righteous that it will go well for them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions.
- Jeremiah 22:15Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did your father not eat and drink And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well for him.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be firm, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- Ephesians 6:3so that it may turn out well for you, and that you may live long on the earth.
Commentaries on Psalms 128:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands - Thou shalt enjoy the avails of thy labor; thou shalt be secure in thy rights. See the notes at Isaiah 3:10. This is a general promise respecting the prosperity which religion affords. If all people were truly religious, this would be universal, so far as man is concerned. Property would be secure; and, except so far as abundant harvests might be prevented by the direct providence of God - by blight, and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2eating the fruit of your labor: This means gaining benefit from whatever work one does.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. For thou shalt eat--that is, It is a blessing to live on the fruits of one's own industry.Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 2If...the toil of your hands He who benefits from the toil of his hands inherits two worlds. In Tractate Berachoth (8a).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 128
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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