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So Haman got the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming before him, "This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!"

So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther's banquet,

So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided.

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they impaled the ten sons of Haman.

So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.

So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

"Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

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

He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

"Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

"We have examined this, and it is true. So hear it and apply it to yourself."

"But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?

so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.

"What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.