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And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and subscribe it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal unto it.

Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.'

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless even him did the foreign women cause to sin.

Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him--

Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.'

While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hastened to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'A fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.'

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'The Chaldeans set themselves in three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.'

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth--yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would exult in pain, though He spare not;

And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.

Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me.

If I had called, and He had answered me; yet would I not believe that He would hearken unto my voice--

Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me!

Yet these things Thou didst hide in Thy heart; I know that this is with Thee;

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head--