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When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
