Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,