52:8 But I 1 am like a flourishing 2 olive tree in the house of God;
I continually 3 trust in God’s loyal love.
128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine 4
in the inner rooms of your house;
your children 5 will be like olive branches,
as they sit all around your table.
1 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.
2 tn Or “luxuriant, green, leafy.”
3 tn Or, hyperbolically, “forever and ever.”
4 sn The metaphor of the fruitful vine pictures the wife as fertile; she will give her husband numerous children (see the next line).
5 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.