Psalms 128:2

128:2 You¹ will eat what you worked so hard to grow.²

You will be blessed and secure.³

Psalms 129:8

129:8 Those who pass by will not say,⁴

“May you experience the Lord’s blessing!

We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord.”

Genesis 39:3

39:3 His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.⁵

Genesis 39:23

39:23 The warden did not concern himself⁶ with anything that was in Joseph’s⁷ care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

Joshua 1:7-8

1:7 Make sure you are⁸ very strong and brave! Carefully obey⁹ all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep!¹⁰ Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful¹¹ in all you do.¹² 1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips!¹³ You must memorize it¹⁴ day and night so you can carefully obey¹⁵ all that is written in it. Then you will prosper¹⁶ and be successful.¹⁷

Joshua 1:1

The Lord Commissions Joshua

1:1 After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

Joshua 22:11

22:11 The Israelites received this report:¹⁸ “Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to¹⁹ the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”

Joshua 22:2

22:2 and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.²⁰

Joshua 1:1

The Lord Commissions Joshua

1:1 After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

Joshua 1:1

The Lord Commissions Joshua

1:1 After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

Isaiah 3:10

3:10 Tell the innocent²¹ it will go well with them,²²

for they will be rewarded for what they have done.²³

¹tn The psalmist addresses the representative God-fearing man, as indicated by the references to “your wife” (v. 3) and “the man” (v. 4), as well as the second masculine singular pronominal and verbal forms in vv. 2-6.

²tn Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”

³tn Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”

⁴tn The perfect verbal form is used for rhetorical effect; it describes an anticipated development as if it were already reality.

⁵tn The Hebrew text adds “in his hand,” a phrase not included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶tn Heb “was not looking at anything.”

⁷tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Or “Only be.”

⁹tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

¹⁰tn Heb “commanded you.”

¹¹tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

¹²tn Heb “in all which you go.”

¹³tn Heb “mouth.”

¹⁴tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

¹⁵tn Heb “be careful to do.”

¹⁶tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

¹⁸tn Heb “the sons of Israel heard, saying.”

¹⁹tn Heb “toward the front of.”

²⁰tn Heb “You have kept all which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, and you have listened to my voice, to all which I commanded you.”

²¹tn Or “the righteous” (KJV, NASB, NIV, TEV); NLT “those who are godly.”

²²tn Heb “that it is good.”

²³tn Heb “for the fruit of their deeds they will eat.”