birthdays

¹¹For by me, your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.

⁵May he grant to you according to your heart, and confirm all your counsels.

²⁴This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us exult and rejoice in it.

²⁴‘May the Lord bless you and keep you. ²⁵May the Lord reveal his face to you and take pity on you. ²⁶May the Lord turn his countenance toward you and grant peace to you.’

¹Why is it necessary for a man to seek things that are greater than himself, when he does not know what is advantageous for himself in his life, during the number of the days of his sojourn, and while time passes by like a shadow? Or who will be able to tell him what will be in the future after him under the sun?

²⁰The third day thereafter was the birthday of Pharaoh. And making a great feast for his servants, he remembered, during the banquet, the chief cupbearer and the chief miller of grain.

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.

⁶Then, on Herod’s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced in their midst, and it pleased Herod.

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. ⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.

⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.

¹²be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.

¹¹For he has given his Angels charge over you, so as to preserve you in all your ways.

¹¹You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy by your countenance. At your right hand are delights, even to the end.

²Most beloved, concerning everything, I make it my prayer that you may benefit by advancing and succeeding in whatever may be to the benefit of your soul.

¹⁷The Lord your God is the strength in your midst; he will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness. In his love, he will be silent. He will exult over you with praise.

¹⁵Thanks be to God for his ineffable gift.

²²HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away. ²³HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness.

¹⁷Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration.