Proverbs 3:8
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 3:8It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
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He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’
They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’
Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;
You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.
They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.
“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.