Psalm 128:2-4

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Psalm 128:2 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. Psalm 128:2 tn Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”
3. Psalm 128:2 tn Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”
4. Psalm 128:3 sn The metaphor of the fruitful vine pictures the wife as fertile; she will give her husband numerous children (see the next line).
5. Psalm 128:3 tn One could translate “sons” (see Ps 127:3 and the note on the word “sons” there), but here the term seems to refer more generally to children of both genders.
6. Psalm 128:4 tn Heb “look, indeed thus will the man, the fearer of the Lord, be blessed.”