12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, (A)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a (B)guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You (C)swore[a] to their fathers?

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:12 solemnly promised

23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And (B)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
(C)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

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11 He will (A)feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who are with young.

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But (A)we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

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And it shall be, when the Lord (A)brings you into the (B)land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He (C)swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, (D)that you shall keep this service in this month.

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24 And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but (A)God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land (B)of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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(A)Dwell in this land, and (B)I will be with you and (C)bless you; for to you and your descendants (D)I give all these lands, and I will perform (E)the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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19 (A)My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

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11 (A)“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

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23 I will establish one (A)shepherd over them, and he shall feed them—(B)My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd.

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15 “Can(A) a woman forget her nursing child,
[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
(B)Yet I will not forget you.

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  1. Isaiah 49:15 Lit. From having compassion

16 and said: (A)“By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son 17 blessing I will (B)bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants (C)as the stars of the heaven (D)and as the sand which is on the seashore; and (E)your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

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15 for all the land which you see (A)I give to you and (B)your [a]descendants forever.

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  1. Genesis 13:15 Lit. seed

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