Genesis 44:28

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.’

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

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.”

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.’

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.”

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 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.”

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.

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?”

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.

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

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.”

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

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

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.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

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.”

but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ ”

Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

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.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

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

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

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

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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.”

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

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.”

He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

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

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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