the Lord will watch over your coming and going
    both now and forevermore.(A)

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The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.(A)

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Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

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for he guards the course of the just
    and protects the way of his faithful ones.(A)

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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

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in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths(A) straight.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:6 Or will direct your paths

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

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31 On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal(A) to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us,(B) and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way.

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31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

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Let the name of the Lord be praised,(A)
    both now and forevermore.(B)

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Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.

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18 it is we who extol the Lord,(A)
    both now and forevermore.(B)

Praise the Lord.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 115:18 Hebrew Hallelu Yah

18 But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord.

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In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns.(A) And the Lord said(B) to you, ‘You will shepherd(C) my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.(D)’”

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Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

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21 There, by the Ahava Canal,(A) I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey(B) for us and our children, with all our possessions.

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21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

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Boasting About Tomorrow

13 Now listen,(A) you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”(B) 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(C) 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,(D) we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.(E)

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13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(A)

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19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

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