Verse 3

Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 52:8 : 8 But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
• Ezek 19:10 : 10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
• Ps 144:12 : 12 Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
• Prov 5:15-18 : 15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain. 16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. 17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you. 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
• Ps 127:5 : 5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
• Hos 14:6-7 : 6 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon. 7 His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.
• Gen 49:22 : 22 Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;
• Rom 11:24 : 24 For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?
• Jer 11:16 : 16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.