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Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”

Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

…where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

…then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

…then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?