³ “so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

¹⁶ “ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

⁴⁰ Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”^(A)

²⁸ “Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.^(A)

²⁵ Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.^(A)

³ Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.^(A)

⁷ Let the mother go, taking only the young for yourself, in order that it may go well with you and you may live long.^(A)

⁶ Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, in order that it may go well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.”^(A)

Psalm 128

The Happy Home of the Faithful

A Song of Ascents.