{Hebrew: Hallelujah.}Praise ye Jehovah.
Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah,
That delighteth greatly in his commandments.
His seed shall be mighty upon earth:
The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Wealth and riches are in his house;
And his righteousness endureth for ever.
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness:
He is gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth;
He shall maintain his cause in judgment.
For he shall never be moved;
The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings:
His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.
His heart is established, he shall not be afraid,
Until he see his desire upon his adversaries.
He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy;
His righteousness endureth for ever:
His horn shall be exalted with honor.
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved;
He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away:
The desire of the wicked shall perish.
Querverweise zu Psalm 112,5 Ps 112,5
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,And keep the paths of the righteous.
I have been young, and now am old;Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,Nor his seed begging bread.
A man void of {Hebrew: heart.}understanding striketh hands,And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah;But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth;And his seed is blessed.
He also that is slack in his workIs brother to him that is a destroyer.
And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a councillor, a good and righteous man
If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother;
but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.
Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.
Be thou not one of them that strike hands,Or of them that are sureties for debts.
for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
If I have withheld {Or, aught that the poor desired}the poor from their desire,Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Or have eaten my morsel alone,And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,And her have I guided from my mother's womb);
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,Or that the needy had no covering;
If his loins have not blessed me,And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If thou hast not wherewith to pay,Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.
But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, {Some ancient authorities read despairing of no man.}never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Prepare thy work without,And make it ready for thee in the field;And afterwards build thy house.
I went by the field of the sluggard,And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns,The face thereof was covered with {Or, wild vetches}nettles,And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Then I beheld, and considered well;I saw, and received instruction:
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,A little folding of the hands to sleep;
So shall thy poverty come as a robber,And thy want as an armed man.
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,And look well to thy herds:
For riches are not for ever:And doth the crown endure unto all generations?
The {Hebrew: grass.}hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself,And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
The lambs are for thy clothing,And the goats are the price of the field;
And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household,And maintenance for thy maidens.
And when they were filled, he saith unto his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost.
in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving {Some ancient authorities read the opportunity.}the Lord;
Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, {Greek: buying up the opportunity.}redeeming the time.