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📚Praise the LORD 📖!Blessed 📖 is the man
who fears 📖 the LORD,
who delights greatly
in his commandments.
2 📚His offspring will be powerful
on earth.
The generation of the upright
will be blessed.
3 📚Wealth and riches 📖 will be
in his house,
and his righteousness continues
on forever 📖.
4 📚To the upright light dawns 📖
in the darkness.
He is gracious,
and full of compassion,
and righteous.
5 📚A good man is gracious
and lends.
He will conduct his dealings
with discretion.
112:5 See Ps 37:21. This is one example of the kindness and compassion God wants to see in His people.⚜
6 📚Surely he will never be shaken 📖.
The righteous will be kept
in everlasting 📖 remembrance.
7 📚He will not be afraid of bad news.
His heart is steadfast, trusting
in the LORD.
8 📚His heart is established;
he will not be afraid, until
he sees his desire fulfilled
on his enemies.
112:7-8 Prov 1:33. Those who fear the LORD need not fear any thing or anyone else (Matt 10:28; Heb 13:6). God will deal with their enemies at the proper time and make all things work for their good.⚜
9 📚He has dispersed, he has given
to the poor;
his righteousness continues
on for ever.
His horn will be exalted
with honour.
112:9 Note at Ps 41:1.⚜
10 📚The wicked will see it,
and be grieved;
he will gnash his teeth,
and waste away.
The desire of the wicked
will perish.
112:10 The wicked cannot endure it when the righteous are exalted – Ps 35:16; 37:12; Prov 10:28; 11:7. Hatred of good and envy of others are two of their ruling passions.⚜