PSA 128:3 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXX Ἐπὶ τὸν νῶτόν μου ἐτέκταινον οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ, ἐμάκρυναν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν.
(Epi ton nōton mou etektainon hoi hamartōloi, emakrunan taʸn anomian autōn. )

128:3 שיך iniquity, easily read for שוכה a furrow.

ULT Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
⇔ in your house;
⇔ your children will be like olive plants
⇔ as they sit around your table.

UST Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes;
⇔ she will give birth to many children.
⇔ Your children who sit around your table;
⇔ you will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it.

BSB Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
⇔ flourishing within your house,
⇔ your sons like olive shoots
⇔ sitting around your table.

OEB ⇔ Like a fruitful vine shall your wife be
⇔ in the innermost room of your house:
⇔ your children, like olive shoots,
⇔ round about your table.

WEBBE Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house,
⇔ your children like olive shoots around your table.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
⇔ in the inner rooms of your house;
⇔ your children will be like olive branches,
⇔ as they sit all around your table.

LSV Your wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of your house,
Your sons as olive plants around your table.

FBV Your wife will be like a fruitful vine growing in your home. Your children will be like the shoots of an olive tree around your table.

T4T Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM];
⇔ she will give birth to many children.
⇔ Your children who sit around your table
⇔ will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it [SIM].

LEB • Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within[fn] your house.
• Your children[fn] will be like olive shoots
• about your table.

128:? Literally “in the recesses of”

128:? Hebrew “sons”

BBE 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.

Moff Your wife within your house
⇔ shall be like a fruitful vine;
⇔ your children, round your table,
⇔ like slips of olive evergreen.

JPS Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.

ASV Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine,
⇔ In the innermost parts of thy house;
⇔ Thy children like olive plants,
⇔ Round about thy table.

DRA The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

YLT Thy wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

Drby Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.

RV Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thine house: thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.

Wbstr Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house: thy children like olive plants around thy table.

KJB-1769 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
(Thy/Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine/your house: thy/your children like olive plants round about thy/your table. )

KJB-1611 Thy wife shalbe as a fruitful Uine by the sides of thine house, thy children like Oliue plants: round about thy table.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps Thy wyfe shalbe as a fruitfull vine: vpon the sides of thyne house. Thy chyldren shalbe like oliue braunches: rounde about thy table.
(Thy/Your wife shall be as a fruitfull vine: upon the sides of thine/your house. Thy/Your children shall be like olive branches: round about thy/your table.)

Gnva Thy wife shalbe as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine house, and thy children like the oliue plantes round about thy table.
(Thy/Your wife shall be as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine/your house, and thy/your children like the olive plantes round about thy/your table. )

Cvdl Thy wife shalbe as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house.
(Thy/Your wife shall be as a frutefull vyne upon the walls of thy/your house.)

Wycl Synneris forgeden on my bak; thei maden long her wickidnesse.
(Synneris forgeden on my bak; they maden long her wickedness.)

Luth Dein Weib wird sein wie ein fruchtbarer Weinstock um dein Haus herum, deine Kinder wie die Ölzweige um deinen Tisch her.
(Your woman becomes his as/like a fruchtbarer Weinstock around/by/for your house herum, your children as/like the Ölzweige around/by/for deinen table her.)

ClVg Supra dorsum meum fabricaverunt peccatores; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam.[fn]
(Supra dorsum mine fabricaverunt peccatores; prolongaverunt iniquitatem suam. )

128.3 Quis sustinebit. ID. Quia prope omnis humana vita peccatis circumlatratur, omnisque conscientia suis cogitationibus accusatur. Non est castum cor, quod præsumit de justitia sua. Præsumat ergo de Dei misericordia, Quia apud eum propitiatio, unde subdit:

128.3 Who sustinebit. ID. Because prope everyone humana vita sins circumlatratur, omnisque conscientia to_his_own cogitationibus accusatur. Non it_is castum cor, that præsumit about justitia his_own. Præsumat therefore about of_God misericordia, Because apud him propitiatio, whence subdit:

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

like a fruitful vine in your house

(Some words not found in UHB: wife_of,your like,vine fruitful in/on/at/with,insides_of house_of,your children_of,your like,shoots_of olive around about,table_of,your )

The wife is spoke of as a vine producing a lot of fruit. This implies that children are like fruit and the wife will have many children. Alternate translation: “very productive and give you many children”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

your children will be like olive plants

(Some words not found in UHB: wife_of,your like,vine fruitful in/on/at/with,insides_of house_of,your children_of,your like,shoots_of olive around about,table_of,your )

Children are compared to olive plants because of the way they grow to surround something. Children will surround the table and make it full. Alternate translation: “you will have many children who will grow and prosper”

around your table

(Some words not found in UHB: wife_of,your like,vine fruitful in/on/at/with,insides_of house_of,your children_of,your like,shoots_of olive around about,table_of,your )

This refers to the place where a family gathers to eat. Often, all those who eat a man’s table are under his authority or control.

Parallel PSA 128:3