Psalms 34:12
Hebrew Text— Psalms 34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
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Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
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.”
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
You will prolong the king’s life. His years will be for generations.
Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”
He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.
Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.
I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.