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His brothers said to him, “Are you really going to make yourself king over us? Will you rule over us?” So they hated him all the more because of his dreams and his reports.
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Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We will see then what comes of his dreams.”
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Chapter 40
The Dreams Interpreted. Some time afterward, the royal cupbearer and baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
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the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt who were confined in the jail both had dreams on the same night, each his own dream and each dream with its own meaning.
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They answered him, “We have had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph said to them, “Do interpretations not come from God? Please tell me the dreams.”
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Later, we both had dreams on the same night, and each of our dreams had its own meaning.
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There was a Hebrew youth with us, a slave of the chief steward; and when we told him our dreams, he interpreted them for us and explained for each of us the meaning of his dream.
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Joseph said to Pharaoh: “Pharaoh’s dreams have the same meaning. God has made known to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
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he was reminded of the dreams he had about them. He said to them: “You are spies. You have come to see the weak points of the land.”
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the Lord said: Now listen to my words: If there are prophets among you, in visions I reveal myself to them, in dreams I speak to them;
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He consulted the Lord; but the Lord gave no answer, neither in dreams nor by Urim nor through prophets.
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Saul’s Doom. Samuel then said to Saul, “Why do you disturb me by conjuring me up?” Saul replied: “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are waging war against me and God has turned away from me. Since God no longer answers me through prophets or in dreams, I have called upon you to tell me what I should do.”
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Then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
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As dreams come along with many cares, so a fool’s voice along with a multitude of words.
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Despite many dreams, futilities, and a multitude of words, fear God!
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Then, at once, visions in horrible dreams perturbed them and unexpected fears assailed them;
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For the dreams that disturbed them had proclaimed this beforehand, lest they perish unaware of why they endured such evil.
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Chapter 34
Trust in the Lord and Not in Dreams
Empty and false are the hopes of the senseless, and dreams give wings to fools.
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Like one grasping at shadows or chasing the wind, so anyone who believes in dreams.
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What is seen in dreams is a reflection, the likeness of a face looking at itself.
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Divination, omens, and dreams are unreal; what you already expect, the mind fantasizes.
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For dreams have led many astray, and those who put their hope in them have perished.
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So short is his rest it seems like none, till in his dreams he struggles as he did by day, Troubled by the visions of his mind, like a fugitive fleeing from the pursuer.
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As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakens with an empty stomach, Or when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakens faint, his throat parched, So shall the horde of all the nations be, who make war against Mount Zion.
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By the dreams they tell each other, they plan to make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name for Baal.