I form light and create darkness,
I make success and create disaster;
I, Yahweh, do all these things.

Now if only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea.

Look, my servant shall achieve success; he shall be exalted, and he shall be lifted up, and he shall be very high.

so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me without success, but shall accomplish what I desire and be successful [in the thing for] which I sent it.

They will not labor without success
or bear children destined for disaster,
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord
along with their descendants.