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Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
