Psalm 112

English Standard Version

The Righteous Will Never Be Moved

112 ^[a] ^(A)Praise the Lord!
^(B)Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
    who ^(C)greatly delights in his commandments!
²His ^(D)offspring will be mighty in the land;
    ^(E)the generation of the upright will be blessed.
³^(F)Wealth and riches are in his house,
    and his ^(G)righteousness endures forever.
⁴Light dawns in the darkness ^(H)for the upright;
    he is gracious, merciful, and ^(I)righteous.
⁵It is well with the man who ^(J)deals generously and lends;
    who conducts his affairs with justice.
⁶For the righteous will ^(K)never be moved;
    ^(L)he will be remembered forever.
⁷He is not ^(M)afraid of bad news;
    his ^(N)heart is firm, ^(O)trusting in the Lord.
⁸His heart is steady;^[b] he will not be afraid,
    until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
⁹He has ^(P)distributed freely; he has given to the poor;
    his righteousness endures forever;
    his ^(Q)horn is exalted in honor.
¹⁰The wicked man sees it and is angry;
    he ^(R)gnashes his teeth and ^(S)melts away;
    ^(T)the desire of the wicked will perish!

Footnotes

Psalm 112:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each line beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Psalm 112:8 Or established (compare 111:8)

Song of Solomon 2:8-17

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The Bride Adores Her Beloved

⁸The voice of my beloved!
    Behold, he comes,
leaping ^(A)over the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.
⁹My beloved is like ^(B)a gazelle
    or a young stag.
Behold, there he stands
    behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    looking through the lattice.
¹⁰My beloved speaks and says to me:
^(C)“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away,
¹¹for behold, the winter is past;
    ^(D)the rain is over and gone.
¹²^(E)The flowers appear on the earth,
    the time of singing^[a] has come,
and the voice of ^(F)the turtledove
    is heard in our land.
¹³^(G)The fig tree ripens its figs,
    and ^(H)the vines are in blossom;
    they give forth fragrance.
^(I)Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away.
¹⁴O my ^(J)dove, in the ^(K)clefts of the rock,
    in the crannies of the cliff,
let me see your face,
    let me ^(L)hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet,
    and your face is ^(M)lovely.
¹⁵Catch ^(N)the foxes^[b] for us,
    the little foxes
that spoil the vineyards,
    ^(O)for our vineyards are in blossom.”

¹⁶^(P)My beloved is mine, and I am his;
    he ^(Q)grazes^[c] among the lilies.
¹⁷Until ^(R)the day breathes
    and ^(S)the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like ^(T)a gazelle
    or a young stag on cleft mountains.^[d]

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Footnotes

Song of Solomon 2:12 Or pruning
Song of Solomon 2:15 Or jackals
Song of Solomon 2:16 Or he pastures his flock
Song of Solomon 2:17 Or mountains of Bether

Luke 24:1-12

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The Resurrection

24 ^(A)But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, ^(B)taking the spices they had prepared. ²And they found ^(C)the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴While they were perplexed about this, behold, ^(D)two ^(E)men stood by them in dazzling apparel. ⁵And as they were ^(F)frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? ⁶He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, ^(G)while he was still in Galilee, ⁷^(H)that the Son of Man ^(I)must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and ^(J)be crucified and on ^(K)the third day rise.” ⁸And ^(L)they remembered his words, ⁹and returning from the tomb they ^(M)told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. ¹⁰Now it was ^(N)Mary Magdalene and ^(O)Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, ¹¹but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and ^(P)they did not believe them. ¹²But ^(Q)Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw ^(R)the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.