2 Samuel 16:12

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It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse to a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.

Has He stricken him, as He struck those who struck Him? Is He slain according to the slaughter of the slain by Him?

Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,

and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,

But like a deaf one, I do not hear; and I am like a dumb one who opens not his mouth.