God said to Moses, “I am that I am.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

Then you will again be my people and I will be your God.

They will be my people, and I will be their God.

So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”

The Lord said to him, “Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.”

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

When you did these things, I was silent, so you thought I was exactly like you. But now I will condemn you and state my case against you!

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

“So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do.

No one will be able to resist you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not abandon you or leave you alone.

She said, “You really are being kind to me, sir, for you have reassured and encouraged me, your servant, even though I am not one of your servants!”

David said to Saul, “Who am I? Who are my relatives or the clan of my father in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”

I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

Hushai replied to Absalom, “No, I will be loyal to the one whom the Lord, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen.