...afflicted patriarch the deep complaint of our text : " Me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me." He said moreover, "Ye know that my wife bore me two sons. And the one went out from me and I said,...

...prevailed ; — and it was again ao with him when, in the anguish of his heart, he said, "Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me." It was so wilh Judah, when in the presence of the stern governor of Egypt he said, " Now therefore,!...

...afraid. 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye * bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against v ch. 34, 10. x ch. 43, 21. y ch. 43. 14. his power to crush poor men under his feet. 'Surely,' might...

...from him, exclaimed with a touching melancholy, " Me have ye bereaved of my children. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things arc agninst me." This is not, indeed, a settled depression; but it serves to convey an idea of it....

...pathetic complaint unto his remaining sons, " Mo " have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon " is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are " against me.'^ And when Reuben undertook for his security, how melancholy the perseverance of his refusal ! " My son...

...locks hardly shade his downcast eye. And as he smites his brow in agony, he exclaims, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me." That man must be dead to every feeling that endears and ennobles humanity, who, with such a scene before...

...your present affliction should be for your good ; you are ready to say, with Jacob, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not ; and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me." But could you once see how sweetly and orderly all these afflictions work, under the blessing and influence...

...take Benjamin with them into Egypt. ' Me ye have bereaved of my children,' said he ; ' Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away ; all these things are against me.' And when his sons, on a previous occasion, had committed the shameful nlurder of the Shechemites, he...

...afraid. 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my twosons, 28 And he said unto his bre- if I bring...

...afraid. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me. And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee : deliver him...