And Leah conceived and bore a son to Jacob; and she called his name Reuben, saying, Because the Lord has looked on my humiliation, and has given me a son, now then my husband will love me.

And she conceived again, and bore a second son to Jacob; and she said, Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, He has given to me this one also; and she called his name Simeon.

And God heard their groanings, and God remembered His covenant [that He] made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and acknowledged them.

And the Lord said to Moses, I have surely seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and I have heard their cry [caused] by their taskmasters; for I know their affliction.

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and Girgashites and Hivites and Jebusites.

And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, O Lord God of Sabaoth, if You will indeed look upon the humiliation of Your maidservant and remember me, and give to your maidservant a male child, then will I indeed dedicate him to You till the day of his death; and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and no razor shall come upon his head.

Look upon my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

But the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord your God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord your God loved you.

Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? And as he slew, shall he be thus slain?

"Blessed are you whenever they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

For our momentary light affliction is working out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

and to give you who are being afflicted rest along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels,

For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.

Beloved, do not be surprised by the fiery trial among you, taking place to test you, as though some strange thing [was] happening to you;

If you are reviled in the name of Christ, blessed are you, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On the one hand He is blasphemed, but on the other He is glorified.

but if anyone [suffers] as a Christian, let him not be put to shame, but let him glorify God in this matter.

And "If the righteous [one] is scarcely saved, where will the godless and the sinner appear?"