Psalm 128:2 - Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Psalm 1:3

And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

But although a sinner may do evil of himself one hundred times, and by patience still endure, I realize that it will be well with those who fear God, who revere his face.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the just man that it is well, for he shall eat from the fruit from his own plans.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn with his right hand and with the arm of his strength: "Certainly, I will no longer permit your grain to be the food of your enemies. And the sons of foreigners will not drink your wine, for which you have labored."

Isaiah 65:13

Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Behold, my servants will eat, and you will be hungry. Behold, my servants will drink, and you will be thirsty.

Jeremiah 22:15

Will you reign because you compare yourself to the cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and act with judgment and justice, so that it would be well with him?

1 Corinthians 15:58

And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:3

so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will cause you be abundant in every good thing: in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, which the Lord swore to your fathers that he would give to you.

Deuteronomy 28:39

You will dig and plant a vineyard, but you will not drink the wine, nor gather anything at all from it. For it will be devastated by worms.

Deuteronomy 28:4

Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:51

And he will devour the fruit of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, until you have passed away, without leaving behind you wheat, or wine, or oil, or herds of oxen, or flocks of sheep: until he utterly destroys you.

Deuteronomy 28:8

The Lord will send forth a blessing upon your cellars, and upon all the works of your hands. And he will bless you in the land that you shall receive.