²³ For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.

²⁶ A blessing be on him who comes in the name of the Lord; we give you blessing from the house of the Lord.

¹⁷ As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

¹⁶ For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

²¹ So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:

³⁶ For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

³⁷ In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.