Quotes About Hope

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ëThis is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.í

Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

You are also directed to tell them: ëTake wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.

“Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.

However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.

“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Josephís own hands will close your eyes.”

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

I await Your salvation, O LORD.

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.