³⁴ For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

⁶ For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?

⁸ And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

³³ But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.

³⁴ And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.

²⁸ See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.

²⁹ If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

³ The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

¹⁴³ Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.

¹¹ And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.