3 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.
But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain. Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you. Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;
I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon. His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.
You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.
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Commentary on Psalms 128 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 128
This, as the former, is a psalm for families. In that we were taught that the prosperity of our families depends upon the blessing of God; in this we are taught that the only way to obtain that blessing which will make our families comfortable is to live in the fear of God and in obedience to him. Those that do so, in general, shall be blessed (v. 1, 2, 4), In particular,
We must sing this psalm in the firm belief of this truth, That religion and piety are the best friends to outward prosperity, giving God the praise that it is so and that we have found it so, and encouraging ourselves and others with it.
A song of degrees.
Psa 128:1-6
It is here shown that godliness has the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.