Psalm 128:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your home, Your children like young olive plants around your table.

Cross References

Genesis 49:22

“Joseph is a wild colt, a wild colt by a spring, wild colts on a hillside.

1 Chronicles 8:40

The sons of Ulam were warriors, skilled with the bow, and they had many sons and grandsons: one hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.

Psalm 127:3

Certainly sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward.

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will never be shamed for he will destroy his foes at the gate.

Psalm 144:12

May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, Our daughters, like carved columns, shapely as those of the temple.

Psalm 52:8

The righteous will see and they will fear; but they will laugh at him:

Jeremiah 11:16

when you hear the great tumult? The Lord has named you “a spreading olive tree, a pleasure to behold”; Now he sets fire to it, its branches burn.

Ezekiel 19:10

Your mother was like a leafy vine planted by water, Fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

Romans 11:24

For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated one, how much more will they who belong to it by nature be grafted back into their own olive tree. God’s Irrevocable Call.