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Psalms 128:2
2for you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be blessed and it will be good 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
1A Song of Ascents. Happy is everyone in awe of Adonai, who walks in His ways, for you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be blessed and it will be good for you. 3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house. Your children will be like olive saplings around your table. 4Behold, thus will the man be blessed who fears Adonai.
Read all of Psalms 128Psalms 128:2 word by word
יְגִ֣יעַ כַּ֭פֶּיךָ כִּ֣י תֹאכֵ֑ל אַ֝שְׁרֶ֗יךָ וְט֣וֹב לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 128:2
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
- Deuteronomy 28:4“Blessed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your livestock—the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
- Judges 6:3Whenever Israel had done their sowing, the Midianites, Amalekites and people from the east would come up and raid them.
- Ecclesiastes 5:18Additionally, everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, and empowers him to eat from it, to receive his share, and to rejoice in his labor—this is a gift of God.
- Isaiah 62:8Adonai has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm: “Surely 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 thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, My servants will eat, while you will go hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
- Ecclesiastes 8:12Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and prolong his days, yet I know that it will be well for those who fear God, for those who revere Him.
- Isaiah 3:10Say to the righteous, he will be well, eating the fruit of their deeds.
- Jeremiah 22:15Did you become king just to be striving with cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my dearly loved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord—because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- Ephesians 6:3“so that it may be well with you, and 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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