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Psalm 128:5

May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

3Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
5May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
6Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
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The blessing comes from Zion, and the hope stretches beyond one person’s welfare to Jerusalem’s good through all the days of a life.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 20:2send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,Both prayers look toward Zion as the place from which blessing or help comes.
Psalm 134:3May the LORD bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.Both verses ask that the LORD bless the person addressed from Zion.
Psalm 118:26Blessed is he who comes in the LORD’s name! We have blessed you out of the LORD’s house.Both passages pronounce a blessing connected with the LORD and a place of worship.
Isaiah 33:20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be …Both texts speak of seeing Jerusalem’s welfare, with Isaiah describing that welfare as a secure and quiet habitation.
Psalm 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.Both verses connect concern for Jerusalem’s welfare with blessing for people.
Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,Both name God as the giver of blessing; Ephesians specifies spiritual blessing in Christ.
Isaiah 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will …Both name Zion and Jerusalem, with blessing coming from Zion in the psalm and the LORD’s instruction going out in Isaiah.
Exodus 20:24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place …Both texts connect the LORD’s blessing with a place of worship: Zion in the psalm, an altar in Exodus.
Jeremiah 31:23The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘The …Both express a wish for the LORD’s blessing in connection with Zion or the holy mountain in Judah.
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This prayer makes room for hopes that span your whole life. The blessing it seeks comes from YHWH, and its concern extends to Jerusalem’s good.

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