Psalms 1:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

²⁴ And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

⁶ Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

²⁷ And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still, ²⁸ Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

² And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God. ³ A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field. ⁴ A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock. ⁵ A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ⁶ A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out. ⁷ By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways. ⁸ The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ⁹ The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you. ¹¹ And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you. ¹² Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs. ¹³ The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them; ¹⁴ Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship. ¹⁵ But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you: ¹⁶ You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field. ¹⁷ A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ¹⁸ A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ²⁰ The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me. ²¹ The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going. ²² The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete. ²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete. ²⁵ The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away. ²⁷ The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well. ²⁸ He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear: ²⁹ You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour. ³⁰ You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it. ³¹ Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you. ³² Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything. ³³ The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever: ³⁴ So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds. ³⁵ The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well. ³⁶ And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone. ³⁷ And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you. ³⁸ You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it. ³⁹ You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms. ⁴⁰ Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit. ⁴¹ You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land. ⁴² All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's. ⁴³ The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you: ⁴⁶ These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever; ⁴⁷ Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things; ⁴⁸ For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you. ⁴⁹ The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you; ⁵⁰ A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young: ⁵¹ He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete. ⁵² Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you. ⁵³ And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters. ⁵⁴ That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living; ⁵⁵ And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. ⁵⁶ The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter; ⁵⁷ And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. ⁵⁸ If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD; ⁵⁹ Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years. ⁶⁰ He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear to you, and they will take you in their grip. ⁶¹ And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete. ⁶² And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God. ⁶³ And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage. ⁶⁴ And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge. ⁶⁵ And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul: ⁶⁶ Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain: ⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.

²⁹ Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

³¹ And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

³ He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

³ What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

¹⁶ Truly, is not their well-being in their power? The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.

⁵ If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

⁶ Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

¹² For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

⁴ I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men. ⁵ I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

¹² I have a safe resting-place for my feet; I will give praise to the Lord in the meetings of the people.

¹ Of David. Maschil. Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered. ² Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

⁸ By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

⁴ He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

² Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

¹² So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

¹² O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

³ Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

¹² The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing; he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron. ¹³ He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great. ¹⁴ May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase. ¹⁵ May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

¹ ALEPH Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord. ² Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

¹¹⁵ Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

¹⁵ Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.

⁵ Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

⁹ The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

¹⁵ My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

¹² Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

³⁴ He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.

¹⁴ Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men. ¹⁵ Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

¹⁹ The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.

¹⁵ Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

²⁹ Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

¹⁷ I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.

⁷ A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

¹⁸ And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

¹³ Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it. ¹⁴ For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

¹⁷ And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

⁵¹ He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts, of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:

¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

²⁹ Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you have belief: a blessing will be on those who have belief though they have not seen me!

² Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

¹³ For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

¹⁴ A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.