1 A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways. 2 The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy [art] thou, and good [is] to thee. 3 Thy wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table. 4 Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah. 5 Jehovah doth bless thee out of Zion, Look, then, on the good of Jerusalem, All the days of thy life, 6 And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!
Psalms · Young's Literal Translation
Psalm 128 Young's Literal Translation
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (5)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 112:1; Psalm 119:1; Psalm 103:13; Luke 1:50; Psalm 1:1–3
- 2 Isaiah 3:10; Isaiah 62:8; Isaiah 65:21–23; Ecclesiastes 5:18–19; Deuteronomy 28:4
- 3 Ezekiel 19:10; Psalm 52:8; Romans 11:24; Proverbs 5:15–18; Genesis 49:22
- 5 Psalm 134:3; Psalm 20:2; Isaiah 33:20; Psalm 118:26; Psalm 122:6
- 6 Job 42:16; Genesis 50:23; Isaiah 66:12; Proverbs 17:6; Psalm 125:5
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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).
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 …
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