- And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. (Matthew 2:12-16)
- The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;
the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. (Nahum 1:3) - Whatever they plot against the Lord
he will bring to an end; (Nahum 1:9) - A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. (John 16:21)
- I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. (Romans 8:18)
- We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (Romans 8:22)
