Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God.

Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.

And they divided His garments and cast lots.

so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and encourage him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

so that Satan should not take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his purposes.

And God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

And they said, You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

As for you, you had devised evil against me; but God had planned it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

And they arose early in the morning and bowed down before Jehovah, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and Jehovah remembered her.

For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.

But the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because Jehovah has said to him, Curse David. Who then shall say, Why have you done so?

It may be that Jehovah will look on my affliction, and that Jehovah will repay me with good for his cursing this day.

So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had purposed to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring calamity upon Absalom.

and he said: Naked I have come from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah has given, and Jehovah has taken away; blessed is the name of Jehovah.

Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

He sent a man before them; Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

whom God raised up, loosing the pangs 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 accord and said: Lord, You are God, who made the heavens and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers themselves were gathered against the Lord and against His Christ.

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him

Now a famine and great distress came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no food.

And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's kindred became known to Pharaoh.

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