Deuteronomy 26:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Look down

Bless thy

Jeremiah 31:23

As thou

Hebrews 6:13

General references

Numbers 13:27

Deuteronomy 14:22

Bible References

Look down

And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work:

But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.

Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

Bless thy

Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing; he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron.

If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.

As thou

For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

General references

And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.