Psalm 128:2
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.

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Context
Blessed Are All who Walk in His Ways
1A 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?

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Psalm 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
For
כִּ֣י (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


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