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Psalms 128

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in his ways. You'll eat the labour of your own hands. You'll be happy, and it will be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house, and your children like olive plants around your table. Look — this is how the man who fears the LORD will be blessed.

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Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in his ways. You'll eat the labour of your own hands. You'll be happy, and it will be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house, and your children like olive plants around your table. Look — this is how the man who fears the LORD will be blessed. The LORD will bless you out of Zion, and you'll see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Yes, you'll see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

Happy is everyone who fears the Lord and walks in his ways. Because you'll eat what your own hands have worked for. You'll be happy and it'll go well for you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, and your children like olive shoots round your table. Look — that's how the man who fears the Lord will be blessed. The Lord will bless you out of Zion, and you'll see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Yes, you'll see your children's children, and peace on Israel.

Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

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Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in his ways.

Plain English

Happy is everyone who fears the Lord and walks in his ways.

King James Version, 1611

Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

2

You'll eat the labour of your own hands. You'll be happy, and it will be well with you.

Plain English

Because you'll eat what your own hands have worked for. You'll be happy and it'll go well for you.

King James Version, 1611

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

3

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house, and your children like olive plants around your table.

Plain English

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, and your children like olive shoots round your table.

King James Version, 1611

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

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Look — this is how the man who fears the LORD will be blessed.

Plain English

Look — that's how the man who fears the Lord will be blessed.

King James Version, 1611

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

5

The LORD will bless you out of Zion, and you'll see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Plain English

The Lord will bless you out of Zion, and you'll see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

King James Version, 1611

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

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Yes, you'll see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

Plain English

Yes, you'll see your children's children, and peace on Israel.

King James Version, 1611

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