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Psalm 128 Literal Standard Version

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Majority (Byzantine) text
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 2020
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WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. O the blessedness of everyone fearing YHWH, || Who is walking in His ways.
1 A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
2 You surely eat the labor of your hands, || You [are] blessed, and good [is] to you.
2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
3 Your wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of your house, || Your sons as olive plants around your 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 is the man blessed who is fearing YHWH.
4 Behold, this is how the man who fears Yahweh is blessed.
5 YHWH blesses you out of Zion, || Look, then, on the good of Jerusalem, || All the days of your 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 the sons of your sons! Peace on 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)