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Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.
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The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.
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Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.
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Though while they live they count themselves blessed— and people praise you when you prosper—
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Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him and bless him all day long.
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The Lord remembers us and will bless us: He will bless his people Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron,
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Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.
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He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you.
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People curse the one who hoards grain, but they pray God’s blessing on the one who is willing to sell.
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Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.
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The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”
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Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”
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This is what the Lord says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.
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They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them.
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For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the Lord.
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This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity, the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The Lord bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.’
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Blessings for God’s People
“Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.
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You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.
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Blessings for a Defiled People
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai:
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“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
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Blessings and Woes
He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon,
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Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
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And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’
