Quotes About Care

Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”

The girl was unsurpassed in beauty; she cared for the king and served him, but he had no relations with her.

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Everything that had been dedicated by Samuel the seer, Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah, along with everything else that was dedicated, was under the care of Shelomith and his brothers.

Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.

Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the kingís eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Estherís welfare and what was happening to her.

She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the kingís eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.

Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widowís ox in pledge.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my motherís womb I guided the widow—

if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?