However, there should not be any poor among you, for the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will surely bless<n id="2" /> you in the land that he<n id="3" /> is giving you as an inheritance,<n id="4" />

Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded<n id="1" /> for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

<t /><p class="bodytext">David praised the <sc>Lordsc> before the entire assembly:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;O <sc>Lordsc> God of our father Israel, you deserve praise forevermore!

The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will pronounce a blessing over the earth, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Blessed be my people, Egypt, and the work of my hands, Assyria, and my special possession,<n id="2" /> Israel!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will do so in the name of the faithful God;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whoever makes an oath in the earthp> <p class="poetry">will do so in the name of the faithful God.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For past problems will be forgotten;p> <p class="poetry">I will no longer think about them.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then I will make you<n id="1" /> into a great nation, and I will bless you,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will make your name great,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so that you will exemplify divine blessing.<n id="4" />p>

Then you will take<n id="1" /> it to your father. Thus he will eat it<n id="2" /> and<n id="3" /> bless you before he dies.&#8221;p>

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So they will put my name<n id="1" /> on the Israelites, and I will bless them.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;When the leaders took the lead<n id="1" /> in Israel,p> <p class="poetry">When the people answered the call to war &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">My heart went out<n id="1" /> to Israel&#8217;s leaders,p> <p class="poetry">to the people who answered the call to war.p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="bodytext">Saul replied, &#8220;May you be blessed by the <sc>Lordsc>, for you have had compassion on me.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is alive!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">My protector<n id="2" /> is praiseworthy!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The God who delivers me<n id="4" /> is exalted as king!<n id="5" />p>

The people gave their blessing on all the men who volunteered to settle in Jerusalem.p>

<p class="poetry">whose heart did not bless me<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is alive!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">My protector<n id="2" /> is praiseworthy!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The God who delivers me<n id="4" /> is exalted as king!<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason<n id="1" /> I will praise you while I live;p> <p class="poetry">in your name I will lift up my hands.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">God deserves praise,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="2" /> he did not reject my prayerp> <p class="poetry">or abandon his love for me!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth yields its crops.p> <p class="poetry">May God, our God, bless us!p>

<p class="poetry">May God bless us!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Then all the ends of the earth will give him the honor he deserves.<n id="2" />p>