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And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.

“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”

While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.

The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.

And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,

…in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.

…in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.

And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

He had seven sons and three daughters,

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

…or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

…he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

…because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

…if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

…if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

…if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

…but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

…and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

…and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.

But when he saw that the three men had no further reply, his anger was kindled.

…because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.

You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.

If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

…where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side—let Israel now declare—

…if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.

Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.