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Genesis 21:9

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But Sarah noticed that Ishmael, Hagar the Egyptian's son she'd had for Abraham, was making fun of Isaac.

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Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't been able to have any children for him. However, she owned a female Egyptian slave named Hagar,

Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram. Abram named his son Ishmael.

Now about Ishmael. I heard what you said, and I will also bless him. I will make sure he has a great many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.

The baby grew up, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a large feast.

The messengers went from town to town all over the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people laughed at them and mocked them.

But they ridiculed God's messengers, they despised his warnings and mocked his prophets, until the Lord's anger against his people was provoked to such an extent it couldn't be stopped.

But now people much younger than me laugh at me; people whose fathers I would not put to work with my sheepdogs.

But I'm a worm, not a man, scorned and despised by everyone.

The mocking of my attackers crushes my bones. They're always asking me, “Where is your God?”

Even children reveal what they're like by what they do, whether their actions are good and right.

Get rid of the scornful, and you'll get rid of conflict too—no more arguments or insults!

As she wanders around in her misery, Jerusalem thinks back to all the wonderful things she once had in the old days. When her enemies conquered her people, she didn't receive any help. Her enemies gloated over her, and laughed at her downfall.

As Scripture says, Abraham had two sons, one from the servant girl, and one from the free woman.

However, just as the one born according to a human plan persecuted the one born through the Spirit, so it is today.

Yet others suffered insults and whippings; they were put in chains and imprisoned.




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