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When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard this, it caused them great displeasure that someone had come to see about the welfare and prosperity of the Israelites.

Then I said to them, "You see the bad situation that we are in—how Jerusalem is desolate and lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace."

Our enemies said, "They will not know or see us until we are among them, kill them and put a stop to the work."

to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown (high turban), to display her beauty before the people and the officials, for she was lovely to see.

Now it happened when they had spoken to him day after day and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's reason [for his behavior] would stand [as valid]; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

"Go, gather all the Jews that are present in Susa, and observe a fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids also will fast in the same way. Then I will go in to [see] the king [without being summoned], which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

"Yet all of this does not satisfy me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

"For how can I endure to see the tragedy that will happen to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

"Also, concerning the Jews, write as you see fit, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring—for a decree which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's signet ring may not be revoked."

"Let the stars of its early dawn be dark; Let the morning wait in vain for the light, Let it not see the eyelids of morning (the day's dawning),

"Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

"Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream, You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].

"Now please look at me, And see if I lie to your face [for you know that I would not].

"Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh]; My eye will not see good again.

"The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more; Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.

"Behold, He passes by me, and I do not see Him; He moves past me, but I do not perceive Him.

"Now my days are swifter than a runner; They vanish, they see no good.

'Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as a man sees?

"Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death], Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,

Whom I, even I, will see for myself, And my eyes will see Him and not another! My heart faints within me.