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Psalm 125

Psa. 125:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Do good
towb (Hebrew #2895)
a primitive root, to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense
KJV usage: be (do) better, cheer, be (do, seem) good, (make) goodly, X please, (be, do, go, play) well.
Pronounce: tobe
, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, unto those that be good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
, and to them that are upright
yashar (Hebrew #3477)
straight (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: yaw-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
in their hearts
libbah (Hebrew #3826)
the heart
KJV usage: heart.
Pronounce: lib-baw'
Origin: feminine of 3820
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Do good.
Psa. 41:1‑3• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.
 2Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
 3Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness. (Psa. 41:1‑3)
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Psa. 51:18• 18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa. 51:18)
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Psa. 73:1• 1A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart. (Psa. 73:1)
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Isa. 58:10‑11• 10and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as midday;
 11and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a water-spring, whose waters deceive not. (Isa. 58:10‑11)
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Heb. 6:10• 10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering. (Heb. 6:10)
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1 John 3:17‑24• 17But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?
 18Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.
 19And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him--
 20that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
 21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,
 22and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.
 23And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment.
 24And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us. (1 John 3:17‑24)
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Psa. 32:2• 2Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah reckoneth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile! (Psa. 32:2)
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Psa. 84:11• 11For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. (Psa. 84:11)
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Psa. 119:80• 80Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed. (Psa. 119:80)
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Lam. 3:25• 25Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. (Lam. 3:25)
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John 1:47• 47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile. (John 1:47)
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Rev. 14:5• 5and in their mouths was no lie found; for they are blameless. (Rev. 14:5)
• (vv. 4-5) The psalm closes with a prayer to the Lord, based on the known governmental ways of God (see Psa. 18:25-26). The Lord will do good to those who are good and upright in their hearts; while those who “turn aside unto their crooked ways” will at last find themselves in company with “workers of iniquity.” (“Psalms 125” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Do good, O Jehovah, unto the good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.