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There were also some that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the famine.

Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: Shouldn't you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

But the former governors that were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their attendants bore rule over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I did not demand the bread of the governor, because the service was heavy on this people.

For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

And it yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: nevertheless 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.

What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

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

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

because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Therefore 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 to them,

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

They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came there, and were confounded.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow);

And you shall be secure, because there is hope; Yes, you shall search [about you], and shall take your rest in safety.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins;