Psa 128:3-4, 144:12-15, Jer 30:19-20, 31:27, 33:11, Lam 2:19, Zec 2:4 | ESV | STEP | Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house ; your children will be like olive shoots around your table .

t[See ver. 7 above]

u Ps. 119:147, 148

v Ps. 62:8; [1 Sam. 7:6]

w[1 Tim. 2:8]

xSee ver. 11, 12

y[ch. 12:6; 14:10, 11]

zSee Esth. 9:19

aa Isa. 49:19; Jer. 31:27

Psalms 128:3-4

3 Your wife will be like ^aa fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like ^bolive shoots
around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.

Psalms 144:12-15

12 May our sons in their youth
be like ^cplants full grown,
our daughters like ^dcorner pillars
cut for the structure of a palace;
13 ^emay our granaries be full,
^fproviding all kinds of produce;
may our sheep bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our fields;
14 may our cattle be heavy with young,
suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; ^{▼▼Hebrew with no breaking in or going out}
may there be no ^hcry of distress in our streets!
15 ⁱBlessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!
^jBlessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

Jeremiah 30:19-20

19 ^kOut of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,
and the voices of those who celebrate.
^lI will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.
20 ^mTheir children shall be as they were of old,
and their congregation shall be established before me,
and I will punish all who oppress them.

Jeremiah 31:27

27 ⁿ“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when ^oI will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with ^pthe seed of man and the seed of beast.

Jeremiah 33:11

11 ^qthe voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring ^rthank offerings to the house of the Lord:

^s“‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts,
for the Lord is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever!’
^tFor I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Lamentations 2:19

19 “Arise, ^ucry out in the night,
at the beginning of the night watches!
^vPour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
^wLift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
^xwho faint for hunger
at the head of every street.”

Zechariah 2:4

4 and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ^y‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited ^zas villages without walls, because of ^aathe multitude of people and livestock in it.