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Psalm 128 JPS Tanakh (1917)

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  • Jewish
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1917
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Song of Ascents. Happy is every one that feareth the LORD, that walketh in His ways.
1 A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
2 When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.
3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
4 Behold, surely thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
4 Behold, this is how the man who fears Yahweh is blessed.
5 The LORD bless thee out of Zion; and see thou the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life;
5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
6 And see thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel!
6 Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
Cross references (5)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 112:1; Psalm 119:1; Psalm 103:13; Luke 1:50; Psalm 1:1–3
  2. 2 Isaiah 3:10; Isaiah 62:8; Isaiah 65:21–23; Ecclesiastes 5:18–19; Deuteronomy 28:4
  3. 3 Ezekiel 19:10; Psalm 52:8; Romans 11:24; Proverbs 5:15–18; Genesis 49:22
  4. 5 Psalm 134:3; Psalm 20:2; Isaiah 33:20; Psalm 118:26; Psalm 122:6
  5. 6 Job 42:16; Genesis 50:23; Isaiah 66:12; Proverbs 17:6; Psalm 125:5

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXVII)

    Among all the Songs entitled the Song of degrees, this Psalm hath a further addition in the title, that it is "Solomon's." For thus it is entitled, "A Song of degrees of Solomon." It hath therefore aroused our attention, and caused us to enquire the reason of this addition, "of Solomon." For it is needless to repeat explanations of the …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)