By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
Psalm 128:2 - Tree of Life Version for you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be blessed and it will be good for you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Common English Bible 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 they have often fought against me from my youth, yet they could not prevail over me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me. |
By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
He will be like a planted tree over streams of water, producing its fruit during its season. Its leaf never droops— but in all he does, he succeeds.
Let a creditor seize all he has, and may strangers plunder his labor.
Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and prolong his days, yet I know that it will be well for those who fear God, for those who revere Him.
Say to the righteous, he will be well, eating the fruit of their deeds.
Adonai has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm: “Surely I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink your new wine, for which you have labored.
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, My servants will eat, while you will go hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
Did you become king just to be striving with cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.
Therefore, my dearly loved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord—because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
“so that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
Adonai will make you overflow in prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil—on the land Adonai swore to your fathers to give you.
Vineyards you will plant and tend—but wine you will not drink or bring in, for the worm will devour it.
“Blessed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your livestock—the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
It will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil, until you are destroyed. It will not leave behind for you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until it ruins you.
Adonai will command the blessing on you in your barns and in every undertaking of your hand, and He will bless you in the land Adonai your God is giving you.