Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. New Living Translation You will enjoy the fruit of your labor. How joyful and prosperous you will be! English Standard Version You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Berean Standard Bible For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. King James Bible For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. New King James Version When you eat the labor of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. New American Standard Bible When you eat the fruit of the labor of your hands, You will be happy and it will go well for you. NASB 1995 When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands, You will be happy and it will be well with you. NASB 1977 When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands, You will be happy and it will be well with you. Legacy Standard Bible When you shall eat of the fruit of the labor of your hands, How blessed will you be and how well will it be for you. Amplified Bible For you shall eat the fruit of [the labor of] your hands, You will be happy and blessed and it will be well with you. Christian Standard Bible You will surely eat what your hands have worked for. You will be happy, and it will go well for you. Holman Christian Standard Bible You will surely eat what your hands have worked for. You will be happy, and it will go well for you. American Standard Version For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Aramaic Bible in Plain English You are happy, oh man, when you will eat the toil of your hands and it is a blessing to your soul! Brenton Septuagint Translation Thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. Contemporary English Version Your fields will produce, and you will be happy--all will go well. Douay-Rheims Bible For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. English Revised Version For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. GOD'S WORD® Translation You will certainly eat what your own hands have provided. Blessings to you! May things go well for you! Good News Translation Your work will provide for your needs; you will be happy and prosperous. International Standard Version You will eat from the work of your hands; you will be happy, and it will go well for you. JPS Tanakh 1917 When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Literal Standard Version You surely eat the labor of your hands, | You [are] blessed, and good [is] to you. Majority Standard Bible For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. New American Bible What your hands provide you will enjoy; you will be blessed and prosper: NET Bible You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure. New Revised Standard Version You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you. New Heart English Bible For you will eat the labor of your hands; you will be blessed, and it will be well with you. Webster's Bible Translation For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. World English Bible For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you. Young's Literal Translation The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Blessed Are All who Walk in His Ways1A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways! 2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. 3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.… Cross References Ephesians 6:3 "that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth." Psalm 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does. Psalm 109:11 May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate. Ecclesiastes 8:12 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence. Isaiah 3:10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor. Jeremiah 22:15 Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him. Treasury of Scripture For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you. thou shalt eat 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. Deuteronomy 28:4,11,39,41 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep… Judges 6:3-6 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; … and it shall Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: Isaiah 3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Jeremiah 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? Jump to Previous Blessings Eat Eatest Fruit Good Hands Happy Labor Prosperity Surely WorkJump to Next Blessings Eat Eatest Fruit Good Hands Happy Labor Prosperity Surely WorkPsalm 128 1. The various blessings which follow those who fear God(2) For thou.--The Hebrew by the position of the particle is more emphatic: "For it is the labour of thine hands thou shalt eat." (See Note, Psalm 116:10.) This picture of a successful and peaceful husbandry, which itself throws a whole flood of light on the condition of Palestine and of the people, now not nomadic but agricultural, is rendered still more emphatic by references to the numerous passages where it is foretold that enemies would devour the harvests (Deuteronomy 28:30-33; Leviticus 26:16). Happy.--The same word translated blessed in Psalm 128:1. . . . Verse 2. - For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands. This is the first point of the "blessedness." God's faithful servant shall enjoy the fruits of his own industry, and not have them devoured by strangers (comp. Deuteronomy 28:33; Leviticus 26:16; Psalm 109:11). Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee; rather, happy thou, and well is it with thee (comp. Deuteronomy 33:29).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction when you eat תֹאכֵ֑ל (ṯō·ḵêl) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat the fruit כַּ֭פֶּיךָ (kap·pe·ḵā) Noun - fdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan of your labor, יְגִ֣יעַ (yə·ḡî·a‘) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3018: Toil, a work, produce, property blessings אַ֝שְׁרֶ֗יךָ (’aš·re·ḵā) Interjection | second person masculine singular Strong's 835: Happiness, interjection, how happy! and prosperity וְט֣וֹב (wə·ṭō·wḇ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good will be yours. לָֽךְ׃ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew Links Psalm 128:2 NIVPsalm 128:2 NLT Psalm 128:2 ESV Psalm 128:2 NASB Psalm 128:2 KJV Psalm 128:2 BibleApps.com Psalm 128:2 Biblia Paralela Psalm 128:2 Chinese Bible Psalm 128:2 French Bible Psalm 128:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 128:2 For you will eat the labor (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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