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Then I said to them, "You see the misery that we are in, that Jerusalem is ruined and its gates burned by the fire. Come, build the walls of Jerusalem and we shall no longer be a disgrace."

Then our enemies said, "They will not know nor see until we come upon them and will kill them and stop the work."

They spoke to him day after day, but he did not listen to them, and they informed Haman to see if Mordecai's resolve would prevail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

And the king said to Haman, "The money is given to you and to the people to do with it as you see fit.

But all this fails to satisfy me when I see Mordecai the Jew setting at the gate of the king."

Write as you see fit concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring cannot be revoked."

But, on the other hand, stretch out your hand and touch all that belongs to him and see whether he will curse you to your face."

But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see whether he will curse you to your face."

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of dawn

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light?

"For now you have become such; you see terrors, and you fear.

Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good.

The eye of the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but I will be gone.

"If he passes by me, I would not see him; and if he should move on, I would not recognize him.

"And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.

Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as human beings see?

where then is my hope? And who will see my hope?

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

whom I will see for myself, and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger. My heart faints within me.

The eye that saw him will not see him again, and his place will no longer behold him.