Psalms 128:6

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

“Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

About Asher he said, “Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,