The chapter as it stands, read forward into the canon it would help write. Beside each verse, the New Testament places that quote, allude to, or echo it — follow any to read it in its own argument. The verse number opens its full reception dossier.
1
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
2
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
3
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
4
Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.
5
May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.