Psalm 128:3

God's Word

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table.

Cross References

Genesis 49:22

“Joseph is a fruitful tree, a fruitful tree by a spring, with branches climbing over a wall.

1 Chronicles 8:40

Ulam’s sons were soldiers, skilled archers. They had many sons and grandsons, 150 in all. All of these men were Benjamin’s descendants.

Psalm 127:3

Children are an inheritance from the Lord. They are a reward from him.

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the city gate.

Psalm 144:12

May our sons be like full-grown, young plants. May our daughters be like stately columns that adorn the corners of a palace.

Psalm 52:8

But I am like a large olive tree in God’s house. I trust the mercy of God forever and ever.

Jeremiah 11:16

The Lord called you a large olive tree that has beautiful fruit to look at. He will set fire to you with a mighty storm, and your branches will be broken.

Ezekiel 19:10

Your mother was like a grapevine that was planted near water. It had a lot of fruit and many branches because there was plenty of water.

Romans 11:24

In spite of the fact that you have been cut from a wild olive tree, you have been grafted onto a cultivated one. So wouldn’t it be easier for these natural branches to be grafted onto the olive tree they belong to?