A Song of Ascents.
Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah,
That walketh in his ways.
For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands:
Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine,
In the innermost parts of thy house;
Thy children like olive plants,
Round about thy table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
That feareth Jehovah.
Jehovah bless thee out of Zion:
And see thou the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Yea, see thou thy children's children.
{Or, And peace upon Israel}Peace be upon Israel.
Querverweise zu Psalm 128,3 Ps 128,3
Joseph is {Hebrew: the son of a fruitful tree.}a fruitful bough,A fruitful bough by a fountain;His {Hebrew: daughters.}branches run over the wall.
But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God:I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:They shall not be put to shame,When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern,And running waters out of thine own well.
{Or, Let}Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,And streams of water in the streets?
Let them be for thyself alone,And not for strangers with thee.
Let thy fountain be blessed;And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth,And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;
Thy mother was like a vine, {Or, in thy likeness}in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Jehovah called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine: {Or, his memorial}the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?