When Avram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Avram, and said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.
Genesis 43:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition May God Almighty give you mercy and favor before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved [of my sons], I am bereaved. American Standard Version (1901) and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. Common English Bible May God Almighty make the man compassionate toward you so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin with you. But me, if I’m left childless, then I’m left childless.” Catholic Public Domain Version Then may my Almighty God cause him to be pleased by you. And send your brother, whom he holds, back with you, along with this one, Benjamin. But as for me, without my children, I will be like one who is bereaved." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And may my almighty God make him favourable to you; and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin. And as for me I shall be desolate without children. |
When Avram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Avram, and said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.
Avraham called the name of that place the LORD Will Provide. As it is said to this day, *On the LORD's mountain, it will be provided.*
May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
God said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
But the LORD was with Yosef, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Shim`on from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
Ya`akov, their father, said to them, *You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is no more, Shim`on is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All these things are against me.*
He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Binyamin's sack.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Yerushalayim;
Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.
*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.*
For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD, your yeshu`ah, according to your word.
When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
The king's heart is in the LORD's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, *The Lord's will be done.*
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Par`oh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Yeshua the Messiah might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and shalom, from God our Father and Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and shalom from God the Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah our Savior.
Grace, mercy, and shalom will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.