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Psalm 128:3
ESV Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
NIV Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
NASB Your wife will be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table.
CSB Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children, like young olive trees around your table.
NLT Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine, flourishing within your home. Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table.
KJV Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
NKJV Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the very heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table.

What does Psalm 128:3 mean?

This continues a description of blessings which come from faithful obedience to the Lord (Psalm 128:1–2). As a nation, Israel was promised blessings or disaster, depending on their obedience to the Lord (Deuteronomy 30:15–18). This does not mean that following God is a guaranteed path to prosperity (John 16:33). For most people, however, following God's will is much more likely to bring success than defying Him (Proverbs 9:10–11; 11:3–8; 14:27).

In the ancient world, fertility was directly associated with divine favor. This was an era without social services or retirement. A person's children were their source of support in old age. They were also the primary legacy which the parents left behind. Women, in particular, were deeply ashamed by an inability to have children. The stories of women like Hannah (1 Samuel 1:2, 27) demonstrate these struggles. Here, one of the blessings offered to Israel is a wife like a "fruitful vine" and many children. This was seen as a great gift (Psalm 127:4–5).
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