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because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: 'Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that did the king's business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen upon them.

because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast pur, that is, the lot, to discomfit them, and to destroy them;

Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come unto them,

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow--

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt look about thee, and shalt take thy rest in safety.

Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;

They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.

Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,

Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did He cover the thick darkness from my face.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.

Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;