The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore!
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the Lord!
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
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