Quotes About Blessing

The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.

Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.

And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).

and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

saying: “Naked I came from my motherís womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,