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All the utensils that King Ahaz repudiated during his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and sanctified; see, they are in front of the altar of the Lord ."

Do not be like your ancestors and your kindred, who were faithless to the Lord God of their ancestors, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

I will gather you to your ancestors and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place and its inhabitants." They took the message back to the king.

And now, if it seems good to the king, have a search made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. Let the king send us his pleasure in this matter."

Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace."

And our enemies said, "They will not know or see anything before we come upon them and kill them and stop the work."

When they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai's words would avail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Yet all this does me no good so long as I see the Jew Mordecai sitting at the king's gate."

For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?"

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to the Jew Mordecai, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he plotted to lay hands on the Jews.

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none; may it not see the eyelids of the morning—

Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced in?

See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.

See, we have searched this out; it is true. Hear, and know it for yourself."

Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.

"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

The eye that beholds me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.

"See, God will not reject a blameless person, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.