Psalms 128

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

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

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

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

3 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].

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

4 Every man who reveres Yahweh will be blessed like that.

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

5 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!

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

6 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!

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