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Genesis 21:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Sarah noticed the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing with her son Isaac;

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Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore him Ishmael.

But just as then the child of the flesh persecuted the child of the spirit, it is the same now.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman.

Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children. Now she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

Jerusalem remembers in days of wretched homelessness, All the precious things she once had in days gone by. But when her people fell into the hands of the foe, and she had no help, Her foes looked on and laughed at her collapse.

In their actions even children can playact though their deeds be blameless and right.

I will say to God, my rock: “Why do you forget me? Why must I go about mourning with the enemy oppressing me?”

To you they cried out and they escaped; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s anger against his people blazed up beyond remedy.

So the couriers passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and as far as Zebulun, but they were derided and scoffed at.

Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment.

Now as for Ishmael, I will heed you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation.

But now they hold me in derision who are younger than I, Whose fathers I should have disdained to rank with the dogs of my flock.

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great banquet on the day of the child’s weaning.

Expel the arrogant and discord goes too; strife and insult cease.




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