And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

{A Song of degrees.} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?

And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.