Psalm 128:2 - American Standard Version (1901)

² For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For you shall eat [the fruit] of the labor of your hands; happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

Common English Bible

² You will definitely enjoy what you’ve worked hard for— you’ll be happy; and things will go well for you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² they have often fought against me from my youth, yet they could not prevail over me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.

English Standard Version 2016

² You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 128:2 Cross References

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.

Psalm 1:3

And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Psalm 109:11

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:

Isaiah 3:10

Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Isaiah 62:8

Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be put to shame;

Jeremiah 22:15

Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:3

that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:11

And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:4

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.

Deuteronomy 28:51

and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.

Deuteronomy 28:8

Jehovah will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.