But Hobab said to him, “I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

But I have integrity! Rescue me and have mercy on me!

Where can I go to escape your spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

One of them said, “Please come along with your servants.” He replied, “All right, I’ll come.”

I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, you revive me. You oppose my angry enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

“I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

Then those officials who had gone to the king came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

“I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work.

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go. But if you do not go with me, I will not go.”

Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct.