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For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
