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Most people on the land may our sons and their youth be like plants full of

grown. Our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace.

What imagery that describes just a prayer for God's blessing on our families,

on our sons and our daughters. In verse 13 may our granaries be full, providing all kinds

of produce. May our sheep bring 4,000s and 10,000s in our fields. Just productive land,

which obviously in the Old Testament was so important for the people of God as a nation to have

sustenance. May our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing.

May there be no cry of distress in our streets. Oh, don't we all long for that.

No cry of distress in our streets. How awesome would it be to open up a news app and hear no

cries of distress? So this is just a prayer for God's blessing, God's abundance in our lives and

on His people and on the land and the peoples around us. And then you get to verse 15 that says

blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall. Well, that's obvious in a sense and

even kind of repeats itself, blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall. Yes, they're

blessed. But then notice the last phrase in this song, blessed are the people. So it's parallel to

what we just read in the beginning of verse 15, blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall,

blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. And so it's obvious that all blessing comes from

knowing God as the Lord. And obviously, obviously, there are times in our lives where we feel overwhelmed

by God's blessing in all kinds of different ways. And there are times when it doesn't seem like

things are going awesome. Maybe inner families are in the land or there are cries of distress in

the streets or cries of distress in our hearts. And yet, Psalm 144, verse 15, this last part of that

verse reminds us, blessed are the people whose God is the Lord because we know the one from whom

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