Therefore don't you be afraid, O Ya`akov my servant, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, Yisra'el: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Ya`akov shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.
Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, *Yosef, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Miriam, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Yehudah in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of the Galil,
While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, *Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.*