16:1 Now Sarai, 1 Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, 2 but she had an Egyptian servant 3 named Hagar. 4 16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Since 5 the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with 6 my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” 7 Abram did what 8 Sarai told him.
16:3 So after Abram had lived 9 in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, 10 to her husband to be his wife. 11 16:4 He had sexual relations with 12 Hagar, and she became pregnant. 13 Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai. 14 16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! 15 I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, 16 but when she realized 17 that she was pregnant, she despised me. 18 May the Lord judge between you and me!” 19
16:6 Abram said to Sarai, “Since your 20 servant is under your authority, 21 do to her whatever you think best.” 22 Then Sarai treated Hagar 23 harshly, 24 so she ran away from Sarai. 25
16:7 The Lord’s angel 26 found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur. 27 16:8 He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from 28 my mistress, Sarai.”
16:9 Then the Lord’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit 29 to her authority. 16:10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, 30 “so that they will be too numerous to count.” 31 16:11 Then the Lord’s angel said to her,
“You are now 32 pregnant
and are about to give birth 33 to a son.
You are to name him Ishmael, 34
for the Lord has heard your painful groans. 35
16:12 He will be a wild donkey 36 of a man.
He will be hostile to everyone, 37
and everyone will be hostile to him. 38
He will live away from 39 his brothers.”
16:13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” 40 for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!” 41 16:14 That is why the well was called 42 Beer Lahai Roi. 43 (It is located 44 between Kadesh and Bered.)
16:15 So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael. 45 16:16 (Now 46 Abram was 86 years old 47 when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.) 48
2:18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. 50 I will make a companion 51 for him who corresponds to him.” 52 2:19 The Lord God formed 53 out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would 54 name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
7:3 thus 55 I have been made to inherit 56
months of futility, 57
and nights of sorrow 58
have been appointed 59 to me.
6:6 I am exhausted as I groan;
all night long I drench my bed in tears; 60
my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. 61
77:2 In my time of trouble I sought 62 the Lord.
I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. 63
I 64 refused to be comforted.
77:3 I said, “I will remember God while I groan;
I will think about him while my strength leaves me.” 65 (Selah)
77:4 You held my eyelids open; 66
I was troubled and could not speak. 67
77:5 I thought about the days of old,
about ancient times. 68
77:6 I said, “During the night I will remember the song I once sang;
I will think very carefully.”
I tried to make sense of what was happening. 69
9:1 (8:23) 70 I wish that my head were a well full of water 71
and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!
If they were, I could cry day and night
for those of my dear people 72 who have been killed.
9:17 The Lord who rules over all 73 told me to say to this people, 74
“Take note of what I say. 75
Call for the women who mourn for the dead!
Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” 76
9:18 I said, “Indeed, 77 let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us.
Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes
and our eyelids overflow with water.
9:19 For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion.
They will wail, 78 ‘We are utterly ruined! 79 We are completely disgraced!
For our houses have been torn down
and we must leave our land.’” 80
13:17 But if you will not pay attention to this warning, 81
I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride.
I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears 82
because you, the Lord’s flock, 83 will be carried 84 into exile.”