Blessed shall you be in the city, and (A)blessed shall you be in the field.

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From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house (A)for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field.

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12 May our sons in their youth
    be like (A)plants full grown,
our daughters like (B)corner pillars
    cut for the structure of a palace;
13 (C)may our granaries be full,
    (D)providing all kinds of produce;
may our sheep bring forth thousands
    and ten thousands in our fields;
14 may our cattle be heavy with young,
    suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;[a]
may there be no (E)cry of distress in our streets!
15 (F)Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!
    (G)Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 144:14 Hebrew with no breaking in or going out

19 (A)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on (B)I will bless you.”

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21 (A)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 (B)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
(C)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy[a] the work of their hands.
23 (D)They shall not labor in vain
    (E)or bear children for calamity,[b]
for (F)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out
  2. Isaiah 65:23 Or for sudden terror

36 And there he lets the hungry dwell,
    and they establish (A)a city to live in;
37 they sow fields and plant vineyards
    and get a fruitful yield.

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12 And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord (A)blessed him,

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10 (A)Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby (B)put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open (C)the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11 I will rebuke (D)the devourer[a] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 3:11 Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests

Thus says the Lord: (A)I have returned to Zion and (B)will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, (C)and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, (D)and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts: (E)Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

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13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    (A)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
(B)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (C)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and (D)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
(E)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

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Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears the Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

128 (B)Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
    who (C)walks in his ways!
You (D)shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
    you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Your wife will be like (E)a fruitful vine
    within your house;
your children will be like (F)olive shoots
    around your table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
    who fears the Lord.

(G)The Lord bless you (H)from Zion!
    May you see (I)the prosperity of Jerusalem
    all the days of your life!

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