Psalms 128:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. ”

Psalms 128:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house - It is not uncommon in the East, as elsewhere, to train a vine along the sides of a house - partly to save ground; partly because...
Psalms 128:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy (c) children like olive plants round about thy table. (c) Because God's favour appears in no outward thing more than in the in...
Psalms 128:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXXVIII. The Blessing of a Pious Home. Psalms 128:2 a. i.e. without being robbed by the oppressor. This shows how low peasant life in Israel has sunk. Psalms 128:3 . Observe the seclusion...
Psalms 128:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wife... fruitful. The reference is, as in Psalms 127 to the fact that Hezekiah was childless at this time and ionged for an heir. App-67. children. sons.
Psalms 128:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house. Here again it is promised, as in the preceding Psalm, that God will make those who honor him fruitful in a numerous offsprin...
Psalms 128:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine - Thy children, in every corner and apar...
Psalms 128:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thy wife shall be, &c.— The author of the Observations remarks, that it does not appear from the accounts of any traveller, that it was ever the custom of the Jews to conduct vines along the si...
Psalms 128:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Thy wife (shall be) as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house - or...
Psalms 128:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The man who fears God will be blessed in his family life. The Ps. has been called the 'Home, Sweet Home 'of Judaism.
Psalms 128:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

By the sides — No doubt the inner part of the house is meant (see Psalms 48:2 ) — the gynecœum or woman’s quarter — or perhaps the sides of the inner court or quadrangle. This is no more out o...
Psalms 128:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 128:1-6 THE preceding psalm traced all prosperity and domestic felicity to God's giving hand. It painted in its close the picture of a father surrounded by his sons able to defend him. This...
Psalms 128:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“It Shall Be Well with Thee” Psalms 128:1-6 This psalm is the portrait of a godly man and his home in the best days of the Hebrew commonwealth. The husband and father , Psalms 128:1-2 . He is...
Psalms 128:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This song naturally follows the one in which Jehovah's relation to the home, as building and establishing it, is recognised. It is chiefly interesting as it reveals the singer's conception of the rel...
Psalms 128:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house ,.... The vine being a weak and tender tree, which needs propping and supporting; and often is fastened to the sides of a house, to...
Psalms 128:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Ver. 3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine ] Full of bunches and cluster...
Psalms 128:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine “He will bless thee also in thy wife, and make her as fruitful as the vine, which spreads itself, laden with full clusters, over all the sides of thy house; and...
Psalms 128:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Blessedness of the Godly. A song of degrees. 1 Blessed is every one that feareth the L ORD ; that walketh in his w...
Psalms 128:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As a fruitful vine; like the vine for fruitfulness; or like that sort of vines known by this name for its eminent fruitfulness, as some trees amongst us are for the same reason called the great be...
Psalms 128:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION This, like 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...
Psalms 128:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS. We have here another family psalm. It compresses all the blessings of the Hebrew covenant into a short compass. (1) We have the character: he fears the Lord. He is in every view a...
Psalms 128:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord. The blessed tendency of true piety The subject is the blessed tendency of true piety, and the truly pious man is described as one that “feareth the L...
Psalms 128:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION IT is not quite easy to see why this psalm occurs among the "Songs of Ascents." The sentiment of it is that true religion never loses its reward; or, in other words, that whoever fe...
Psalms 128:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Happiness of the Pious. A song of degrees, setting forth the temporal blessings of true piety. Cf Zechariah 8.
Psalms 128:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 19:10 ; Genesis 49:22 ; Hosea 14:6 ; Hosea 14:7 ; Jeremiah 11:16 ; Proverbs 5:15-18 ; Psalms 144:12 ; Psalms 52:8 ; Psalms 127:5 ; Romans 11:24
Psalms 128:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Olive — plants — Numerous, growing and flourishing.

Psalms 128:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 128:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 128:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 128:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 128:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 128:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 128:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 128:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 128:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 128:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 128:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 128:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 128:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 128:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 128:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 128:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes