“Naphtali is a doe let loose,
He gives beautiful words.

So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the people go.

But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.

For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go.

So Balaam arose in the morning and said to Balak’s leaders, “Go back to your land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”

Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

For the sake of Your word, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness to let Your servant know.

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain.

As a loving hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be exhilarated always with her love.

“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke?

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“The sons of Israel are oppressed,
And the sons of Judah as well;
And all who took them captive have held them fast,
They have refused to let them go.

He said, “Behold, I am going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation, for it pertains to the appointed time of the end.

Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.