Psalms 52:8

52:8 But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God;

I continually trust in God’s loyal love.

Psalms 128:3

128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine

in the inner rooms of your house;

your children will be like olive branches,

as they sit all around your table.


tn The disjunctive construction (vav [ו] + subject) highlights the contrast between the evildoer’s destiny (vv. 5-7) and that of the godly psalmist’s security.

tn Or “luxuriant, green, leafy.”

tn Or, hyperbolically, “forever and ever.”

sn The metaphor of the fruitful vine pictures the wife as fertile; she will give her husband numerous children (see the next line).

tn One could translate “sons” (see Ps 127:3 and the note on the word “sons” there), but here the term seems to refer more generally to children of both genders.