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Psalms 128:2
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You will surely eatwhat your hands have worked for.You will be happy,and it will go well for you.
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
You will enjoy what you work for, and you will be blessed with good things.
You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
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.
When you eat the fruit of the labor of your hands, You will be happy and it will go well for you.
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
When thou eatest the labours of thine hands, thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee.
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.
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Your fields will produce, and you will be happy and all will go well.
You will eat what your hands have produced; you will be happy and prosperous.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
You will get what you work for. You will enjoy the Lord's blessings, and all will go well for you.
For you shall eat the labour of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you will be happy and it will be well with you.
For you shall surely eat the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and all is good to you.
For thou shalt eate the laboures of thine owne hondes: o well is the, happie art thou.
For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine handes: happie shalt thou bee, and it shall be well with thee.
For thou shalt eate the labours of thine handes: thou shalt be happy, and [all] shall go well with thee.
Thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
For thou schalt ete the trauels of thin hondis; thou art blessid, and it schal be wel to thee.
For you shall eat the labor of your hands: Happy you shall be, and it shall be well with you.
For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy [shalt] thou be, and [it shall be] well with thee.
When you eat the labor of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
You will enjoy the fruit of your labor. How joyful and prosperous you will be!
For you will eat the fruit of your hands. You will be happy and it will be well with you.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.
The labour of thine own hands, surely thou shalt eat. How happy thou, and well for thine!
(127-2) For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy [art] thou, and good [is] to thee.
When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands, You will be happy and it will be well with you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thou shalt eat: Genesis 3:19, Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:11, Deuteronomy 28:39, Deuteronomy 28:51, Judges 6:3-6, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 5:19, Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 65:13, Isaiah 65:21-23
and it shall: Ecclesiastes 8:12, Isaiah 3:10, Jeremiah 22:15, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Ephesians 6:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:15 - put Deuteronomy 12:7 - ye shall Judges 19:16 - his work Ruth 3:1 - may be Nehemiah 5:2 - our sons Psalms 1:3 - whatsoever Proverbs 12:11 - tilleth Proverbs 13:11 - he Proverbs 31:31 - of the Ecclesiastes 2:10 - my heart rejoiced Ecclesiastes 3:13 - General Isaiah 19:15 - General Jeremiah 40:9 - Fear Jeremiah 42:6 - that it
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thou shall eat the labour of thine hands,.... That is, thou that fearest the Lord, and walkest in his ways. It is an apostrophe, or address to such, even to everyone of them; instancing in one part of the blessedness that belongs to them, enjoyment of what their hands have laboured for; which may be understood both in a literal and spiritual sense: man must labour and get his bread with the sweat of his brow; he that will not work should not eat, he that does should; and a good man may have a comfortable enjoyment of the good of his labour; than which, as to temporal blessings, there is nothing better under the sun, Ecclesiastes 5:18; and, in a spiritual sense, good men labour in prayers at the throne of grace, there lifting up holy hands to God, wrestling with him for a blessing, which they enjoy; they labour in attendance on the word and ordinances, for the meat which endures to everlasting life; and they find the word and eat it, and Christ in it, whose flesh is meat indeed; and feed by faith on it, to the joy and comfort of their souls;
happy [shall] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee; or, to thy soul, as the Syriac version; happy as to temporal things, and well as to spiritual ones: such having an apparent special interest in the love, grace, mercy, and delight of God; in his providence, protection, and care; in the supplies of his grace, and in his provisions for his people, in time and eternity. It is well with such that felt God, in life and at death, at judgment and for ever: and the Targum is,
"thou art blessed in this world, and it shall be well with thee in the world to come;''
and so Arama.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands - Thou shalt enjoy the avails of thy labor; thou shalt be secure in thy rights. See the notes at Isaiah 3:10. This is a general promise respecting the prosperity which religion affords. If all people were truly religious, this would be universal, so far as man is concerned. Property would be secure; and, except so far as abundant harvests might be prevented by the direct providence of God - by blight, and mildew, and storms, and drought - all people would enjoy undisturbed the avails of their labor. Slavery, whereby one man is compelled to labor for another, would come to an end; every one who is now a slave would “eat the labor of his own hands;” and property would no more be swept away by war, or become the prey of robbers and freebooters. Religion, if it prevailed universally, would produce universal security in our rights.
Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee - literally, “Happy thou, and well with thee.” That is, happiness and security would be the consequence of true religion.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 128:2. Those shalt eat the labour of thine hands — Thou shalt not be exempted from labour. Thou shalt work: But God will bless and prosper that work, and thou and thy family shall eat of it. Ye shall all live on the produce of your own labour, and the hand of violence shall not be permitted to deprive you of it. Thus,
Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. — Thou shalt have prosperity.
Verse Psalms 128:3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine — Thy children, in every corner and apartment of thy house, shall be the evidences of the fruitfulness of thy wife, as bunches of grapes on every bough of the vine are the proofs of its being in a healthy thriving state. Being about the house sides, or apartments, is spoken of the wife, not the vine; being around the table is spoken of the children, not of the olive-plants. It does not appear that there were any vines planted against the walls of the houses in Jerusalem, nor any olive-trees in pots or tubs in the inside of their houses; as may be found in different parts of Europe.
