Opening the chapter…
Praise God! How fortunate are those who have an awesome respect for him, those who happily obey his commands.
Their children will prosper in their land; God will bless their descendants.
Their families will be wealthy, and their righteous deeds will endure forever.
For those who honor God, it is as if a light were shining on them in the darkness— on those who are kind, merciful, and righteous.
Things will go well for those who generously lend money to others and who conduct their business honestly.
Righteous people will not be overwhelmed because of their troubles; other people will always treasure their memories of them.
They are not afraid when they receive bad news; they confidently trust in God.
They are confident and not afraid because they know that they will see God defeat their enemies.
They give things generously to poor people; their kind deeds will endure forever, and they will be exalted and honored.
Wicked people see those things and are angry; they gnash their teeth angrily, but they will disappear and die. The wicked things that they want to do will never happen.
Source
Unlocked Dynamic Bible. Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/. By the Door43 World Missions Community (Wycliffe Associates release v19-10); based on A Translation for Translators by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: Door43 WycliffeAssociates/en_udb release v19-10. Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a verse number appears twice in the source, the first copy is shown. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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