Therefore, here is what the Lord says concerning the people of Anathoth who want to take your life. They warn, “You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will certainly die at our hand.”

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

Neither hast thou delivered

As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so we were before You, Lord.

Therefore the Lord God said:
“Look, I have laid a stone in Zion,
a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
the one who believes will be unshakable.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

General references

“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land.”

But the Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us, and forced us to do hard labor.