<p class="poetry">A joyful heart<n id="1" /> makes the face cheerful,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but by a painful heart the spirit is broken.p>

<p class="poetry">A cheerful heart<n id="1" /> brings good healing,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but a crushed spirit<n id="3" /> dries up the bones.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Sorrow<n id="1" /> is better than laughter,p> <p class="poetry">because sober reflection<n id="2" /> is good for the heart.<n id="3" />p>

So tell them<n id="1" /> you are my sister<n id="2" /> so that it may go well<n id="3" /> for me because of you and my life will be spared<n id="4" /> on account of you.&#8221;p>

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time,<n id="1" /> Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, &#8220;My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.<n id="2" />

But remember me<n id="1" /> when it goes well for you, and show<n id="2" /> me kindness.<n id="3" /> Make mention<n id="4" /> of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,<n id="5" />

Do whatever is proper<n id="1" /> and good before the <sc>Lordsc> so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he<n id="2" /> promised your ancestors,

You must be sure<n id="1" /> to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.p>

Then the king said to them, &#8220;I will do whatever seems best to you.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues<n id="1" /> with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God.

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth<n id="1" /> today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.p>

Honor<n id="1" /> your father and your mother just as the <sc>Lordsc> your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he<n id="2" /> is about to give you.

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey<n id="1" /> all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number<n id="1" /> &#8211; as the <sc>Lordsc>, God of your ancestors,<n id="2" /> said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.p>

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

But if my father intends to do you harm, may the <sc>Lordsc> do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don&#8217;t let you know<n id="1" /> and send word to you so you can go safely on your way.<n id="2" /> May the <sc>Lordsc> be with you, as he was with my father.

The king&#8217;s servants have even come to congratulate<n id="1" /> our master<n id="2" /> King David, saying, &#8216;May your God<n id="3" /> make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!&#8217;<n id="4" /> Then the king leaned<n id="5" /> on the bed

and said to the king, &#8220;If the king is so inclined<n id="1" /> and if your servant has found favor in your sight, dispatch me to Judah, to the city with the graves of my ancestors, so that I can rebuild it.&#8221;

I also explicitly commanded them:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Obey me. If you do, I<n id="2" /> will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you<n id="3" /> and things will go well with you.&#8221;