Your Children Like Olive Shoots (Psalm 128:1-6)
Psalms 128:1-6 · Berean Standard Bible
Psalm 128 pictures a flourishing home: a wife "like a fruitful vine," children "like olive shoots around your table," and the promise to "live to see your children's children." It is a blessing spoken over the whole family — spouse, children, and grandchildren alike — for all who walk in the ways of the Lord.
1Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
4In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
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