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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
