Comfort, yes, comfort My people, says [your] God.

Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away; for she has received of the Lord's hand double [for] her sins.

Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And dividing His garments, they cast lots.

so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest somehow such a person be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

lest we be taken advantage of by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.

Now then, you did not send me here, but God; and He has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.

And they said, you have saved us; we have found favor before our lord, and we will be servants to Pharaoh.

You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and many people might be fed.

And they rose early in the morning, and worshipped the Lord, and they went their way. And Elkanah went into his house at Ramathaim, and knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered her, and she conceived.

For you did it in secret, but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in broad daylight.

And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why have you done thus?

If by any means the Lord may look upon my affliction, thus shall He return me good for his cursing this day.

And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord has purposed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, that the Lord might bring all evil upon Absalom.

and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away. As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Moreover He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole support of bread.

He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you took, and by lawless hands, nailing [Him] to a cross, you killed [Him];

whom God raised, [thus] doing away with the labor pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.

So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one mind and said: "Lord, You are God, who made heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were assembled together against the LORD and against His Christ.'

to do all that Your hand and Your counsel foreordained to come to pass.

"And the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; and God was with him,

And a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no provisions..

And the second [visit] Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.

So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.