As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually!
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
“Come,” they say, “let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.”
You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand, my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches, my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’
He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”
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