שָׁנָה

We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.

We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.

While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king

In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.

She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

…to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

…the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.

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.

Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.

Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

Increase the days of the king’s life; may his years span many generations.

You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.

…for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.

Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.

…lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

…even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,

Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,