Genesis 42:21

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Summary

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

They said

We saw

This distress

Proverbs 1:27

General references

Genesis 49:23

Bible References

They said

Then the chief butler spoke unto Pharaoh, saying, I remember my sins today;

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye shall have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will catch up with you.

Then David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has taken away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me to call my iniquity to remembrance and to cause my son to die?

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me;

For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.

And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction,

I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.

Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the princes of the priests and the elders,

where their worm does not die, and the fire is never quenched.

for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

And many that believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds.

We saw

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

And Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered crumbs under my table; as I have done, so God has recompensed me. And they put him into Jerusalem, and there he died.

Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself but shall not be heard.

If thou forbear to deliver those that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to be slain,

A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee all the way to the grave, and no one shall sustain him.

Could this not have come upon you peradventure because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness because it is bitter, because it reaches unto thine heart.

Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, each one to his brother and each man to his neighbour; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, said the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

For with the judgment with which ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with the measure with which ye measure, ye shall be measured again.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For judgment without mercy shall be done unto the one that has shown no mercy; and mercy boasts against judgment.

This distress

when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.

General references

The arches have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him;