he will bless those who fear the Lord, both the small and the great.
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!
And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.”
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!
May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
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