Then I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely My just due is with Jehovah, and My work with My God.

Why do you weigh out money for what is not bread, and your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the people; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed Jehovah has blessed.

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and do them,

Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.

For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and establish My covenant with you.

Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Jehovah shall cause your enemies who rise against you to be stricken before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

Jehovah will establish you as a holy people unto Himself, as He has sworn unto you, if you keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and have walked in His ways.

And Jehovah will make you exceed in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land of which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers to give to you.

You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.

Locusts shall dispossess all your trees and the produce of your land.

The glory of Ephraim shall fly away like a bird; from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.

As I watched Tyre, Ephraim was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall lead out his sons to the slayer.

You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled with drink; you put on clothes, but no one is warm. And, one hiring himself out earns wages for a bag of holes.

Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not brought forth. From this day I will bless them.

Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing until there is not enough room to store it.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the people; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed Jehovah has blessed.

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to be God unto you and unto your seed after you.

Jehovah shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

You are blessed by Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth.

And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for the good of their children after them.

I will whistle for them and gather them, for I have redeemed them. And they shall multiply as they once multiplied.

And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries, and they shall live with their sons and return.

For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Having raised up His Son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac your Seed shall be called.

That is, those who are the children of flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are accounted as seed.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.