Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

a fruitful vine

Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;

Proverbs 5:15-18 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. . . .

Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

olive plants

Psalm 52:8 But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.

Psalm 144:12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

Jeremiah 11:16 The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.

Hosea 14:6,7 His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus. . . .

Romans 11:24 For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

round about

Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.