Psalm 128:3

New International Version

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Cross References

Genesis 49:22

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.

1 Chronicles 8:40

The sons of Ulam were brave warriors who could handle the bow. They had many sons and grandsons—150 in all. All these were the descendants of Benjamin.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

Psalm 144:12

Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Psalm 52:8

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.

Jeremiah 11:16

The Lord called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.

Ezekiel 19:10

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

Romans 11:24

After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!