Quotes About Fate

both of these men—the Egyptian kingís cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.

So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.

After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,

Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.

One night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.

And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”

Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ëIs your father still alive? Do you have another brother?í And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ëBring your brother hereí?”

The man did as Joseph had commanded and took the brothers to Josephís house.

But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Josephís house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boyís life,

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”

Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?

Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.