Genesis 42:13

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.

He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’

and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains.

“In those days they will say no more, “ ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’ ”

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”

We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,