Verse 7

Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

Referenced Verses

• Prov 14:28 : 28 In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
• Gen 34:3 : 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
• Ps 71:4-6 : 4 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth. 6 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
• Ps 71:9-9 : 9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails. 10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together, 11 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."
• Ps 71:18-20 : 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come. 19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you? 20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
• Ps 129:1-2 : 1 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, 2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
• Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
• Isa 40:1 : 1 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.
• Hos 2:14 : 14 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.