Psalms 128 · Verse 2

Psalms 128:2

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Psalms 128:2, King James Version

Psalms 128:2 in other translations

BSBFor when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
WEBFor you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
ASVFor thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
YLTThe labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee.
DARBYFor thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
BBEYou will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
WebsterFor thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

What does Psalms 128:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. For thou shalt eat--that is, It is a blessing to live on the fruits of one's own industry.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Those shalt eat the labor of thine hands - Thou shalt not be exempted from labor. Thou shalt work: But God will bless and prosper that work, and thou and thy family shall eat of it. Ye shall all live on the produce of your own labor, and the hand of violence shall not be permitted to deprive you of it. Thus, Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee - Thou shalt have prosperity.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 128:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְגִ֣יעַye.Gi.a'[the] product ofH3018
כַּ֭פֶּיךָKa.pei.khahands yourH3709
כִּ֣יkiforH3588
תֹאכֵ֑לto.Khelyou will eatH398
אַ֝שְׁרֶ֗יךָ'ash.Rei.khahow blessed [are]! youH835
וְט֣וֹבve.Tovand will be goodH2895
לָֽךְ\׃Lakh[is] to you

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 128:2

  • Isaiah 3:10

    Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

  • Isaiah 62:8

    The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

  • Isaiah 65:21-23

    And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:18-19

    Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

  • Deuteronomy 28:4

    Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

  • Deuteronomy 28:11

    And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:12

    Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

  • 1 Corinthians 15:58

    Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

  • Ephesians 6:3

    That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

  • Isaiah 65:13

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

  • Jeremiah 22:15

    Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

  • Deuteronomy 28:51

    And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thou shalt eat.
Ge 3:19; De 28:4,11,39,51; Jud 6:3-6; Ec 5:18,19; Isa 62:8
Isa 65:13,21-23
and it shall.
Ec 8:12; Isa 3:10; Jer 22:15; 1Co 15:58; Eph 6:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 128:1

    A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.

  • Psalms 128:2

    For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

  • Psalms 128:3

    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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Psalms 128:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Cuando comieres el trabajo de tus manos, bienaventurado tú, y tendrás bien.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car tu mangeras du travail de tes mains; tu seras bienheureux, et tu seras entouré de biens.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn essen wirst du die Arbeit deiner Hände; glückselig wirst du sein, und es wird dir wohlgehen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
sæpe expugnaverunt me a juventute mea: etenim non potuerunt mihi.