What soldier ever serves at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
Blessed are those servants whose master finds alert when he comes. Truly I tell y’all that he will dress himself to serve, have them recline at the table, and will come and serve them.
Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to YHWH, our God, until ʜᴇ has mercy on us.
“Therefore YHWH, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said-said that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now YHWH says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of YHWH here, that we may inquire of YHWH by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”
The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?
Y’all must not listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Y’all must make your peace with me, and come* out to me. Then each of y’all will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern
Y’all shouldn’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Y’all must make your peace with me, and come out to me. Each of y’all will eat from their own vine, and their own fig tree, and drink the waters of their own cistern;
Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it will be done for the man the king delights to honor!”