Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his clothing, and cast lots.

So that instead you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

And they rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD has said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Why have you done so?

It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had purposed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there: the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke every staff of bread.

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, you are God, who has made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that is in them:

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

To do whatsoever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,