Expected

“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”

“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.

What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

But when his accusers rose to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.

And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, through the will of God.