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And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

…and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

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.”

“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

…who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”

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.

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

…as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

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

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

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

…if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.

You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.

The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.

For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

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

The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.