Psalm 128:2

New English Translation

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

Psalm 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and still live a long time, yet I know that it will go well with God-fearing people – for they stand in fear before him.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: “I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.

Isaiah 65:13

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

Jeremiah 22:15

Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:3

“that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:4

Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:8

The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do – yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.