Psalms Chapter 128 verse 3 Holy Bible
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.
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Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
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Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table.
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Thy wife `is' as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides (rather, in the inner chambers) of thine house. The second point of blessedness is a fruitful wife, content to dwell in the female apartments of the house, to keep at home (Titus 2:5) and guide the household. Thy children like olive plants; or, "olive shoots" - the vigorous offsets from an aged olive tree, which spring up around it, ready to take its place. Round about thy table. Clustering around thy board, at once a source of cheerfulness and strength (see Psalm 127:5). This is the third point of blessedness.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) By the sides--No doubt the inner part of the house is meant (see Psalm 48:2)--the gynec?um or woman's quarter--or perhaps the sides of the inner court or quadrangle. This is no more out of keeping with the figure of the vine than the table is with that of olive plants. Though the Hebrews had not yet developed the fatal habit of secluding their women, as later Orientals have done, still there was a strict custom which allotted a more private tent (Genesis 18:9) or part of a house to them. And doubtless we are here also to think of the good housewife who is engaged within at the household duties, and is not like the idle gossip, sitting "at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city" (Proverbs 9:14). The vine and olive are in Hebrew poetry frequent symbols of fruitfulness and of a happy, flourishing state. (See Psalm 52:8; Jeremiah 11:16.) The comparison of children to the healthy young shoots of a tree is, of course, common to all poetry, being indeed latent in such expressions as "scion of a noble house." (Comp. Euripides, Medea 1,098: "a sweet young shoot of children.")
