Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- BSB Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- NKJV Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the very heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table.
- NASB Your wife will be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table.
- NLT Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine, flourishing within your home. Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table.
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- Ezek 19:10“‘Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- Ps 52:8But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
- Rom 11:24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
- Gen 49:22“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
- Prov 5:15–18Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
- Jer 11:16Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
- Ps 144:12Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- Hos 14:6–7His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
- Ps 127:5Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
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