And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
One left me, and I said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since.
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.
And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”
but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.
When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
A Song of Ascents. When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,
I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.
If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”
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