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Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
