Psalms 128

1 A song for pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. Happy are all those who worship the Lord, everyone who follows his ways!

(Happy are/Yahweh is pleased with) those of you who revere him and do what he wants you to do [IDM].

2 You will eat what your own hands have produced. You will be happy and do well.

You will [be able to earn the money] that you [MTY] need to buy food; you will be happy and you will be prosperous.

3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your table.

Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM]; she will give birth to many children. Your children who sit around your table will be like a strong olive [tree that has many] shoots [growing up around it] [SIM].

4 This will certainly be the Lord's blessing on those who worship him.

Every man who reveres Yahweh will be blessed like that.

5 May the Lord go on blessing you from Zion; may you see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life.

I wish/hope that Yahweh will bless all of you from [where he dwells] (on Zion [Hill]/[in Jerusalem]) and that you will see [the people of] Jerusalem prospering every day that you live!

6 May you see your children's children. May Israel be at peace!

I desire that you will live many years, long enough to see your grandchildren. I desire/hope that things will go well for [the people in] Israel!