²⁵ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

²⁷ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

⁴⁹ But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”

²³ During that long period,^(A) the king of Egypt died.^(B) The Israelites groaned in their slavery^(C) and cried out, and their cry^(D) for help because of their slavery went up to God.

⁶ Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out^(A) to the Lord for help.

³⁹ He also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?^(A)

¹¹ The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute?^(A) Who gives them sight or makes them blind?^(B) Is it not I, the Lord?

³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man^(A) have kept this man from dying?”^(B)