Psalms 128:2

Psalms chapter 128 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

King James Version · 1611

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

American Standard Version · 1901

For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

v.1Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah, That walketh in his ways.

v.2This passage

v.3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Deuteronomy 28:11
And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Isaiah 3:10
Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Ephesians 6:3
that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
Genesis 3:19
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.