Psalms 128

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

A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

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

For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

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

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house: thy children like olive plants around thy table.

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

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

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

The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

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

Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.