Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—
“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.