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On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!"

When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates, so that no goods could enter on the Sabbath day.

So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and her royal position shall be given to a woman more worthy than she.

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready for that day.

A copy of the text, issued as law throughout every province, was distributed to all the peoples, so that the Jews would be prepared on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:

then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment."

It is said that God lays up one's punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so that he may know it.

Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see, as He traverses heaven's horizon.'

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.