¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

¹² No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

¹⁴ You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

⁶ There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

¹² And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

² But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

³⁹ For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.