Psalms 128:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 128:2
    81%

    2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

  • Ps 128:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4 See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

    5 May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

    6 May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

  • Prov 31:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27 She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

    28 Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

  • Deut 28:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

    5 A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

  • Ps 127:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

    4 Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.

    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.

  • Prov 5:18
    74%

    18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Ps 144:12
    74%

    12 Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;

  • Prov 19:14
    73%

    14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

  • Prov 3:10
    72%

    10 So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

  • Prov 31:31
    72%

    31 Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Deut 28:11
    72%

    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Ps 113:9
    72%

    9 He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Deut 7:13
    71%

    13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

  • Ps 92:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.

    14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

  • Deut 11:21
    71%

    21 So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • Deut 28:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

  • Prov 4:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

    10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

  • Ruth 4:12
    70%

    12 May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.

  • Deut 30:9
    70%

    9 And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Ps 112:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

    3 A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.

  • Prov 31:23
    70%

    23 Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

  • Eph 6:3
    70%

    3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

  • Jer 29:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

    6 Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • Prov 23:25
    70%

    25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

  • Isa 62:5
    70%

    5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

  • Prov 18:22
    70%

    22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

  • Prov 12:4
    70%

    4 A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

  • Ezek 19:10
    70%

    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 147:13
    70%

    13 He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.

  • Ps 1:3
    70%

    3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

  • Prov 31:16
    69%

    16 After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.

  • Ps 80:15
    69%

    15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

  • Isa 54:13
    69%

    13 And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

  • Ps 115:14
    69%

    14 May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

  • Ps 45:16
    69%

    16 Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.

  • Prov 31:11
    69%

    11 The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.