Psalms 128:4

"Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table."

Key Reflection

In Psalm 128:4, a "fruitful vine" symbolizes a wife who brings abundance and prosperity to the home, while "olive shoots" represent children who grow and thrive in the family setting, surrounding their father at the table—a metaphor for unity and blessing within the household.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed ... -As if he had said, “Look upon this picture. See the farmer cultivating his fields; see him gathering in the grain; see him at his own table calmly, quietly, and gratefully enjoying the fruit of his toil. Look upon that picture of a happy family - numerous, cheerful, beloved - giving promise of upholding the name of the family in future years - and see all this as coming from the Lord - and you have an illustration of the blessedness which follows a religious life.”

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