And their father Jacob said to them, “I am the one you have bereaved of children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has happened to me!”
Psalm 39:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O look away from me and spare me, that I may recover cheerfulness and encouraging strength and know gladness before I go and am no more! American Standard Version (1901) Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Common English Bible Look away from me so I can be happy again before I pass away and am gone. Catholic Public Domain Version For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me. |
And their father Jacob said to them, “I am the one you have bereaved of children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has happened to me!”
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”
“Remember now, O Lord, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.
For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
Will you not look away from me for a while, let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and reeled because he was angry.
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.