³⁴ For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

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

⁸ Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

³³ The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

³⁴ This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

²⁸ Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.

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

³ The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

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

¹¹ 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 until the day of his death.