So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

Neither hast thou delivered

As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

General references

Go in and say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he is to let the children of Israel go out of his land.

And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke: