Psalms 128

1 A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

A Song of Ascents. How happy is every one that revereth Yahweh, who walketh in his ways!

2 For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

The labour of thine own hands, surely thou shalt eat. How happy thou, and well for thine!

3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house, —Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, round about thy table.

4 In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.

Lo! thus, shall be blessed the man who revereth Yahweh.

5 May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,

Yahweh will bless thee, out of Zion, —and behold thou the welfare of Jerusalem, all the days of thy life!

6 that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!

And behold thou thy children’s children, —Prosperity on Israel!