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For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
