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Psalm 4:6
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Psalm 4:6
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6 Many, Lord, are asking, “Who will bring us prosperity?”
Let the light of your face shine on us.(A)
Psalm 4:6
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Psalm 4:6
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6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
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Psalm 80:19
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Psalm 80:19
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19 Restore us, Lord God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.
Psalm 80:19
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Psalm 80:19
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19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Numbers 6:26
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Numbers 6:26
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Numbers 6:26
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Numbers 6:26
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26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
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Psalm 119:135
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Psalm 119:135
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Psalm 119:135
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Psalm 119:135
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135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
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Psalm 80:7
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Psalm 80:7
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7 Restore us, God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.(A)
Psalm 80:7
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Psalm 80:7
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7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Psalm 89:15
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Psalm 89:15
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Psalm 89:15
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Psalm 89:15
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15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
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Psalm 67:1
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Psalm 67:1
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Psalm 67[a]
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.
Footnotes
- Psalm 67:1 In Hebrew texts 67:1-7 is numbered 67:2-8.
- Psalm 67:1 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 4.
Psalm 67:1
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Psalm 67:1
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67 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
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Psalm 49:16-20
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Psalm 49:16-20
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16 Do not be overawed when others grow rich,
when the splendor of their houses increases;
17 for they will take nothing(A) with them when they die,
their splendor will not descend with them.(B)
18 Though while they live they count themselves blessed—(C)
and people praise you when you prosper—
19 they will join those who have gone before them,(D)
who will never again see the light(E) of life.
Psalm 49:16-20
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Psalm 49:16-20
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16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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James 5:1-5
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James 5:1-5
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Warning to Rich Oppressors
5 Now listen,(A) you rich people,(B) weep and wail(C) because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.(D) 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.(E) 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(F) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(G) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(H) 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves(I) in the day of slaughter.[a](J)
Footnotes
- James 5:5 Or yourselves as in a day of feasting
James 5:1-5
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James 5:1-5
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5 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
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Luke 16:19
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Luke 16:19
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.(A)
Luke 16:19
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Luke 16:19
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19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
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Ecclesiastes 2:3-26
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Ecclesiastes 2:3-26
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3 I tried cheering myself with wine,(A) and embracing folly(B)—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself(C) and planted vineyards.(D) 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves(E) who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold(F) for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.(G) I acquired male and female singers,(H) and a harem[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem(I) before me.(J) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;(K)
nothing was gained under the sun.(L)
Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless
12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.(M)
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?(N)
13 I saw that wisdom(O) is better than folly,(P)
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.(Q)
15 Then I said to myself,
“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”(R)
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;(S)
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.(T)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!(U)
Toil Is Meaningless
17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(V) 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(W) 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?(X) Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(Y) 23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(Z) even at night their minds do not rest.(AA) This too is meaningless.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink(AB) and find satisfaction in their own toil.(AC) This too, I see, is from the hand of God,(AD) 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?(AE) 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,(AF) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth(AG) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.(AH) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
Ecclesiastes 2:3-26
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Ecclesiastes 2:3-26
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3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Psalm 80:1-3
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Psalm 80:1-3
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Psalm 80[a]
For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm.
Footnotes
- Psalm 80:1 In Hebrew texts 80:1-19 is numbered 80:2-20.
Psalm 80:1-3
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Psalm 80:1-3
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80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Psalm 44:3
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Psalm 44:3
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3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
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