³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

⁶ for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

⁸ And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered them.

³³ And the man of thine, `whom' I shall not cut off from mine altar, `shall be' to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.

³⁴ And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

²⁸ Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.

²⁹ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

³ The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; `Yet' thy commandments are my delight.

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

¹¹ And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.