the Lord protects him and keeps him alive;
    he is called blessed in the land;
    you (A)do not give him up to the will of his enemies.

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Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: (A)Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land. And (B)do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, (C)I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord. But I will give you (D)your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”

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12 (A)Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
    for (B)false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they (C)breathe out violence.

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for while (A)bodily training is of some value, godliness (B)is of value in every way, as (C)it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

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32 The wicked (A)watches for the righteous
    and seeks to put him to death.
33 The Lord will not (B)abandon him to his power
    or let him (C)be condemned when he is brought to trial.

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(A)Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
    do not further their[a] evil plot, or (B)they will be exalted! Selah

As for the head of those who surround me,
    let (C)the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:8 Hebrew his

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!
May you see your (J)children's children!
    (K)Peace be upon Israel!

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For he will deliver you from (A)the snare of the fowler
    and from the deadly pestilence.
He will (B)cover you with his pinions,
    and under his (C)wings you will (D)find refuge;
    his (E)faithfulness is (F)a shield and buckler.
(G)You will not fear (H)the terror of the night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
    nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you.

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22 for those blessed by the Lord[a] shall (A)inherit the land,
    but those cursed by him (B)shall be cut off.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:22 Hebrew by him

19 that he may (A)deliver their soul from death
    and keep them alive in (B)famine.

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