Psalms 128:1-4

1 All you who fear God, how blessed you are! how happily you walk on his smooth straight road!

2 You worked hard and deserve all you've got coming. Enjoy the blessing! Revel in the goodness!

3 Your wife will bear children as a vine bears grapes, your household lush as a vineyard, The children around your table as fresh and promising as young olive shoots.

4 Stand in awe of God's Yes. Oh, how he blesses the one who fears God!

Psalms 128:1-4 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 128

\\<>\\. This psalm very probably was written by the same hand as the former, and seems to have some connection with it; as that shows that all things depend on the providence and goodness of God; and that all blessings, particularly children, are the gift of God; this points out the blessings, civil and religious, that belong to good men; and, among the rest, a numerous offspring. According to the Syriac version, ``it is said concerning Zerubbabel, prince of Judah; and the care of the building: and it intimates in it the calling of Gentiles.'' Manythings in it may be applied Christ and his church.