Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, said, “Arise, bless the Lord your God forever and ever!
O may Your glorious name be blessed
And exalted above all blessing and praise!

Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord God, have spoken; and with Your blessing may the house of Your servant be blessed forever.”

The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless us;
He will bless the house of Israel;
He will bless the house of Aaron.

And now it has pleased You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You; for You, O Lord, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him.

How blessed are the people who are so situated;
How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

Now, therefore, please come, curse this people for me since they are too mighty for me; perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

“Behold, I have received a command to bless;
When He has blessed, then I cannot revoke it.

“He couches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares rouse him?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
And cursed is everyone who curses you.”

whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.

“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

“Because he who is blessed in the earth
Will be blessed by the God of truth;
And he who swears in the earth
Will swear by the God of truth;
Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And because they are hidden from My sight!

Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

“Most blessed of women is Jael,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
Most blessed is she of women in the tent.

and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing.

How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.

May his name endure forever;
May his name increase as long as the sun shines;
And let men bless themselves by him;
Let all nations call him blessed.

If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.

A Psalm of David.
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And all that is within me, bless His holy name.

Bless the Lord, all you works of His,
In all places of His dominion;
Bless the Lord, O my soul!

So David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, “Blessed are You, O Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed low and did homage to the Lord and to the king.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;
We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.

How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.

And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

O house of Israel, bless the Lord;
O house of Aaron, bless the Lord;

O house of Levi, bless the Lord;
You who revere the Lord, bless the Lord.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;

He blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;

I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said,
“See, the smell of my son
Is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed;

May peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you;
Be master of your brothers,
And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be those who curse you,
And blessed be those who bless you.”

Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.”

Then he said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house on account of Joseph; thus the Lord’s blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field.

He blessed them that day, saying,
“By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying,
‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!’”
Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

A Psalm of David.
Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle;

A Psalm of Praise, of David.
I will extol You, my God, O King,
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.

Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.

All Your works shall give thanks to You, O Lord,
And Your godly ones shall bless You.

My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,
And all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever.

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

For He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
He has blessed your sons within you.

How blessed is the man who finds wisdom
And the man who gains understanding.

The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked,
But He blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

“Now therefore, O sons, listen to me,
For blessed are they who keep my ways.

“Blessed is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at my doorposts.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

When Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel.

Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok said to him, “Since the contributions began to be brought into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat with plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed His people, and this great quantity is left over.”

then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.

The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.

It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich,
And He adds no sorrow to it.

By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,
But by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

He who withholds grain, the people will curse him,
But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

He who gives attention to the word will find good,
And blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

A righteous man who walks in his integrity—
How blessed are his sons after him.

An inheritance gained hurriedly at the beginning
Will not be blessed in the end.

He who is generous will be blessed,
For he gives some of his food to the poor.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:

The Lord bless you, and keep you;

So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them.”

But to those who rebuke the wicked will be delight,
And a good blessing will come upon them.

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.

How blessed is the man who fears always,
But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

There is a kind of man who curses his father
And does not bless his mother.

Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:

God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!”

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at other times to seek omens but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

But my dove, my perfect one, is unique:
She is her mother’s only daughter;
She is the pure child of the one who bore her.
The maidens saw her and called her blessed,
The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

Then Ezra blessed the Lord the great God. And all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands; then they bowed low and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times!

In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you,
And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who long for Him.

because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle.

When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him and to bless in His name until this day.