²⁶ and they declare to him, saying, `Joseph `is' yet alive,' and that he `is' ruler over all the land of Egypt; and his heart ceaseth, for he hath not given credence to them.

²⁸ and the one goeth out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn -- torn! and I have not seen him since;

³⁵ and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For -- I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

⁴¹ and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?'

³⁴ saying -- `The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'

¹¹ and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

⁷ In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back `to' the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

²¹ He hath made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possessions.

²⁴ I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.

¹⁶ Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear `to' my voice.

⁸ and now, ye -- ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁹ `Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not,

³⁸ and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother `is' dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'

³⁶ and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'