How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?
Of old thou didst speak in a vision to thy faithful one, and say: “I have set the crown upon one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people.
You and the people with you will wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone.
to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Choose wise, understanding, and experienced men, according to your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
“At that time I said to you, ‘I am not able alone to bear you;