Psalms 128:2

You ¹  will eat what you worked so hard to grow. ²  You will be blessed and secure. ³ 

Ge 3:19; De 28:4,11,39,51; Jud 6:3-6; Ec 5:18,19; Ec 8:12; Isa 3:10; Isa 62:8; Isa 65:13,21-23; Jer 22:15; 1Co 15:58; Eph 6:3

¹ tn The psalmist addresses the representative God-fearing man, as indicated by the references to “your wife” (v. 3) and “the man” (v. 4), as well as the second masculine singular pronominal and verbal forms in vv. 2-6.

² tn Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”

³ tn Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”