Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 128:3

3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house : thy children like oliveplants round about thy table .

Like the vine for fruitfulness: or, like that sort of vines known by this name for its eminent fruitfulness, as some trees amongst us are for the same reason called the great bearers.

Where the vines are commonly planted for support and other advantages. Which being applied to the wife, may signifie either, 1. the wife's duty to abide at home, Tit. 2. 5. as the harlot is deciphered by her gadding abroad, Prov. 7. 11, 12. or rather, 2. the legitimateness of the children, which are begotten at home by the husband, and not abroad by strangers.

Numerous, growing and flourishing, good both for ornament and manifold uses, as Olive-trees are.

Where they shall sit at meat with thee, for thy comfort and safety.