THEOSISPsalm 128 (127):3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.
אֶשְׁתְּךָ֤ ׀ כְּגֶ֥פֶן פֹּרִיָּה֮ בְּיַרְכְּתֵ֢י בֵ֫יתֶ֥ךָ בָּ֭נֶיךָ כִּשְׁתִלֵ֣י זֵיתִ֑ים סָ֝בִ֗יב לְשֻׁלְחָנֶֽךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 19:10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.
- Ps 52 (51):8
- Gen 49:22Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;
- Rom 11:24For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
- Prov 5:15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
- Prov 5:18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
- Jer 11:16The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.
- Hos 14:6I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.