From Psalms: Layer by Layer
| text | "When someone's position in life is admirable and desirable, that person is declared "happy" (cf. 1 Kgs 10: 8). Wicked people are sometimes declared "happy," since their position in life can seem admirable and desirable (cf. Mal 3: 14-15). But I do not call the wicked "happy." Instead, I say," |
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| text | ", by the end of life's journey," |
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| textBefore | "Happy is the one who" |
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| text | "and lived his life according to what wicked people say should or should not be done" |
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| textBefore | "Happy is the one who has not walked in the counsel of wicked people" |
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| text | "and committed to living a sinful lifestyle" |
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| textBefore | "Happy is the one who has not walked in the counsel of wicked people , has not taken a stand in the way of sinful people" |
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| text | "and adopted the character of an insolent person who mocks YHWH' s instruction and those who follow it" |
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| textBefore | "Happy is the one who has not walked in the counsel of wicked people , has not taken a stand in the way of sinful people , and has not settled in the dwelling place of insolent people" |
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| text | "of receiving instruction for life' s journey from wicked people, he receives instruction from YHWH. And" |
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| text | ", because he delights in it," |
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| textBefore | "Instea d , his delight is in YHWH's instruction, and" |
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| text | "And so he lives life's journey according to YHWH's instruction, walking on the way of the righteous and forming a character shaped by YHWH's instruction." |
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| textBefore | "Instea d , his delight is in YHWH's instruction, and he meditates on his instruction day and night." |
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| text | "when the time of threshing and winnowing comes, , thrown up into the air with a winnowing fork, Why would anyone consider them " happy"? They do not meditate on YHWH' s instruction, and so they will not, in the end, flourish like trees in YHWH' s garden. from the threshing floor. Just as chaff grows together with the grain in a field, so the wicked currently live together with the righteous. But the day is coming when YHWH will execute judgment and separate the wicked from the righteous, just as chaff is separated from grain at the harvest" |
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| text | "because wicked people will be like chaff that is separated from the grain and blown away," |
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| text | "be declared righteous and When YHWH judges between the wicked and the righteous, they will not be able to escape YHWH' s verdict and sentence. Unable to stand firm, they will be " blown away, " removed from the land and from YHWH' s life-giving presence , because YHWH is just and will never declare the guilty to be righteous" |
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| text | "Here, then, is the reason why I declare the righteous, and not the wicked, to be " happy":" |
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| text | "although it can seem as though wicked people are the ones flourishing," |
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