Your loyal followers will be glad when they see me, for I find hope in your word.

and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

So I again considered another futile thing on earth:

“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

The Lord gave me knowledge, that I might have understanding. Then he showed me what the people were doing.

א (Alef) I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.

to defraud a person in a lawsuit – the Lord does not approve of such things!

until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.

You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; pronounce judgment on my behalf!

You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

I saw that she was defiled; both of them followed the same path.

The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

“As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt, I will show you miraculous deeds.”

Next the Lord showed me four blacksmiths.

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.”

They replied, “We could plainly see that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us – between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you