Strength to Strength

For You, O LORD, bless the righteous man [the one who is in right standing with You];

He who walks with integrity and strength of character, and works righteousness, And speaks and holds truth in his heart. Filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God [so that His glory may be both revealed and recognized]. Blessed and greatly favored is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways. Their hearts are on the road (that leads to you).

They will pass through the Baca Valley where he will prepare a spring for them; even the early rain will cover it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; Each of them appears before God in Zion.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD bestows grace and favor and honor; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

And my speech and my teaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding]. He gives wisdom to the wise And [greater] knowledge to those who have understanding.

For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even until death.

So I shall bless you in my life, and in your Name I shall lift up my hands.

My soul [my life, my very self] is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth offers praises [to You] with joyful lips.