{"id":432,"date":"2026-07-12T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:43:00","slug":"psalm-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 128"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Song of Ascents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Blessed<\/mark> is everyone who <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">fears<\/mark> the Lord,<br>who walks in his ways!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left:2em\">2 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;<br>you shall be blessed, and it shall be <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">well<\/mark> with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left:4em\">3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine<br>within your house;<br>your <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">children<\/mark> will be like olive shoots<br>around your table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Behold, thus shall the man be <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">blessed<\/mark><br>who <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">fears<\/mark> the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left:2em\">5 The Lord bless you from Zion!<br>May you see the <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">prosperity<\/mark> of Jerusalem<br>all the days of your life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left:4em\">6 May you see your <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">children&#8217;s<\/mark> <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">children<\/mark>!<br>Peace be upon Israel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Song of Ascents. 1 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,who walks in his ways! 2 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vinewithin your house;your children will be like olive shootsaround [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}