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Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.
And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
