And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me.”
Psalm 39:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be 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 Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me.”
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
“Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.