I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;(A)
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.(B)[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)

10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,(A)
    nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,[a]
until he to whom it belongs[b] shall come(B)
    and the obedience of the nations shall be his.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:10 Or from his descendants
  2. Genesis 49:10 Or to whom tribute belongs; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

21 They made me jealous(A) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.(B)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(C)

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Ask me,
    and I will make the nations(A) your inheritance,(B)
    the ends of the earth(C) your possession.

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27 All the ends of the earth(A)
    will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    will bow down before him,(B)
28 for dominion belongs to the Lord(C)
    and he rules over the nations.

29 All the rich(D) of the earth will feast and worship;(E)
    all who go down to the dust(F) will kneel before him—
    those who cannot keep themselves alive.(G)
30 Posterity(H) will serve him;
    future generations(I) will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness,(J)
    declaring to a people yet unborn:(K)
    He has done it!(L)

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There is a river(A) whose streams(B) make glad the city of God,(C)
    the holy place where the Most High(D) dwells.(E)

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