Jeremiah 42:6

42:6 We will obey what the Lord our God to whom we are sending you tells us to do. It does not matter whether we like what he tells us or not. We will obey what he tells us to do so that things will go well for us.” ¹ 

Deuteronomy 4:40

4:40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth ²  today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

Psalms 128:1-2

Psalm 128 ³ 

A song of ascents. ⁴ 

128:1 How blessed is every one of the Lord’s loyal followers, ⁵ 

each one who keeps his commands! ⁶ 

128:2 You ⁷  will eat what you worked so hard to grow. ⁸ 

You will be blessed and secure. ⁹ 

Isaiah 3:10

3:10 Tell the innocent ¹⁰  it will go well with them, ¹¹ 

for they will be rewarded for what they have done. ¹² 

[42:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Whether good or whether evil we will hearken to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you in order that it may go well for us because/when we hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.” The phrase “whether good or whether evil” is an abbreviated form of the idiomatic expressions “to be good in the eyes of” = “to be pleasing to” (BDB 374 s.v. טוֹב 2.f and see 1 Kgs 21:2) and “to be bad in the eyes of” = “to be displeasing to” (BDB 948 s.v. רַע 3 and see Num 22:34). The longer Hebrew sentence has been broken down and restructured to better conform with contemporary English style.

[4:40]  ² tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV).

[128:1]  ³ sn Psalm 128. The psalmist observes that the godly individual has genuine happiness because the Lord rewards such a person with prosperity and numerous children.

[128:1]  ⁴ sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.

[128:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “every fearer of the Lord.”

[128:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “the one who walks in his ways.”

[128:2]  ⁷ tn 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.

[128:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “the work of your hands, indeed you will eat.”

[128:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “how blessed you [will be] and it will be good for you.”

[3:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “the righteous” (KJV, NASB, NIV, TEV); NLT “those who are godly.”

[3:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that it is good.”

[3:10]  ¹² tn Heb “for the fruit of their deeds they will eat.”