Psalm 128:2 - 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.

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.

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² they have often fought against me from my youth, yet 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 to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Psalm 1:3

And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.

Isaiah 3:10

Say to the just man that it is well: for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.

Jeremiah 22:15

Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him?

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable; always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:3

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms.

Deuteronomy 28:4

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:51

And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed. And will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee,

Deuteronomy 28:8

The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and upon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that thou shalt receive.