December 28, 2027

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2Had not the LORD been with us, when people rose against us, 3Then they would have swallowed us alive, for their fury blazed against us. 4Then the waters would have engulfed us, the torrent overwhelmed us; 5then seething water would have drowned us. 7We escaped with our lives like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare was broken, and we escaped. 8Our help is in the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.

13The Flight to Egypt. When they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.” 14Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. 15He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, “Out of Egypt I called my son.” 16The Massacre of the Infants. When Herod realized that he had been deceived by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had ascertained from the magi. 17Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet: 18“A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more.”