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• Genesis 44:18

  Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

• Genesis 44:19

  My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

• Genesis 44:20

  We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

• Genesis 44:21

  You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

• Genesis 44:22

  We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

• Genesis 44:23

  You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

• Genesis 44:24

  When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

• Genesis 44:25

  Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’

• Genesis 44:26

  We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’

• Genesis 44:27

  Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons:

• Genesis 44:28

  and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I haven’t seen him since.

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

• Genesis 44:30

  Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

• Genesis 44:31

  it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

• Genesis 44:32

  For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’

• Genesis 44:33

  Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

• Genesis 44:34

  For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me? — lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

• Genesis 45:1

  Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

• Genesis 45:2

  He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

• Genesis 45:3

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

• Genesis 45:4

  Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. “He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

• Genesis 45:5

  Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

• Genesis 45:6

  For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

• Genesis 45:7

  God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

• Genesis 45:8

  So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 45:9

  Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.

• Genesis 45:10

  You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

• Genesis 45:11

  There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’

• Genesis 45:12

  Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

• Genesis 45:13

  You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

• Genesis 45:14

  He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

• Genesis 45:15

  He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

• Exodus 14:5

  The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

• Exodus 14:6

  He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;

• Exodus 14:7

  and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

• Exodus 14:8

  Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

• Exodus 14:9

  The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

• Exodus 14:10

  When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

• Exodus 14:11

  They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

• Exodus 14:12

  Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

• Exodus 14:13

  Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.

• Exodus 14:14

  Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

• Exodus 14:15

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

• Exodus 14:16

  Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.

• Exodus 14:17

  Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

• Exodus 14:18

  The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:19

  The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

• Exodus 14:20

  It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn’t come near the other all night.

• Exodus 14:21

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

• Exodus 14:22

  The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

• Exodus 14:23

  The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

• Exodus 14:24

  In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

• Exodus 14:25

  He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

• Exodus 14:26

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

• Exodus 14:28

  The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

• Exodus 14:29

  But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

• Exodus 14:30

  Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

• Exodus 15:1

  Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

• Exodus 15:2

  Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

• Exodus 15:3

  Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

• Exodus 15:4

  He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

• Exodus 15:5

  The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

• Exodus 15:6

  Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

• Exodus 15:7

  In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

• Exodus 15:8

  With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

• Exodus 15:9

  The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’

• Exodus 15:10

  You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

• Exodus 15:11

  Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

• Exodus 15:12

  You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

• Exodus 15:13

  “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

• Exodus 15:14

  The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

• Exodus 15:15

  Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

• Exodus 15:16

  Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone — until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased.

• Exodus 15:17

  You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

• Exodus 15:18

  Yahweh shall reign forever and ever.”

• Exodus 15:19

  For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

• Ruth 1:1

  In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

• Ruth 1:2

  The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and lived there.

• Ruth 1:3

  Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

• Ruth 1:4

  They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

• Ruth 1:5

  Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

• Ruth 1:6

  Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

• Ruth 1:7

  She went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. They went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

• Ruth 1:8

  Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

• Ruth 1:9

  May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.

• Ruth 1:10

  They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”

• Ruth 1:11

  Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

• Ruth 1:12

  Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

• Ruth 1:13

  would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

• Ruth 1:14

  They lifted up their voices, and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

• Ruth 1:15

  She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

• Ruth 1:16

  Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

• Ruth 1:17

  Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

• Ruth 1:18

  When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

• Ruth 1:19

  So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

• Ruth 1:20

  She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

• Ruth 1:21

  I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

• 2 Samuel 18:19

  Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run, and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”

• 2 Samuel 18:20

  Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”

• 2 Samuel 18:21

  Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

• 2 Samuel 18:22

  Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.” Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since that you will have no reward for the news?”

• 2 Samuel 18:23

  “But come what may,” he said, “I will run.” He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.

• 2 Samuel 18:24

  Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

• 2 Samuel 18:25

  The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer.

• 2 Samuel 18:26

  The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, “Behold, a man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.”

• 2 Samuel 18:27

  The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”

• 2 Samuel 18:28

  Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!”

• 2 Samuel 18:29

  The king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.”

• 2 Samuel 18:30

  The king said, “Turn aside, and stand here.” He turned aside, and stood still.

• 2 Samuel 18:31

  Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “News for my lord the king, for Yahweh has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.”

• 2 Samuel 18:32

  The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.”

• 2 Samuel 18:33

  The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

• 1 Kings 17:2

  Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,

• 1 Kings 17:3

  “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

• 1 Kings 17:4

  You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

• 1 Kings 17:5

  So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.

• 1 Kings 17:6

  The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

• 1 Kings 17:7

  After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

• 1 Kings 17:8

  Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,

• 1 Kings 17:9

  “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

• 1 Kings 17:10

  So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

• 1 Kings 17:11

  As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:13

  Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”

• 1 Kings 17:15

  She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil did not fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

• 2 Kings 4:1

  Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

• 2 Kings 4:2

  Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

• 2 Kings 4:3

  Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from of all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

• 2 Kings 4:4

  Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

• 2 Kings 4:5

  So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

• 2 Kings 4:6

  When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

• 2 Kings 4:7

  Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

• 2 Kings 5:1

  Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

• 2 Kings 5:2

  The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

• 2 Kings 5:3

  She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”

• 2 Kings 5:4

  Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.”

• 2 Kings 5:5

  The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

• 2 Kings 5:6

  He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”

• 2 Kings 5:7

  When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

• 2 Kings 5:8

  It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

• 2 Kings 5:9

  So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

• 2 Kings 5:10

  Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

• 2 Kings 5:11

  But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

• 2 Kings 5:12

  Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

• 2 Kings 5:13

  His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

• 2 Kings 5:14

  Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

• Esther 4:1

  Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.

• Esther 4:2

  He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

• Esther 4:3

  In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

• Esther 4:4

  Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

• Esther 4:5

  Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

• Esther 4:6

  So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.

• Esther 4:7

  Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

• Esther 4:8

  He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

• Esther 4:9

  Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

• Esther 4:10

  Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

• Esther 4:11

  “All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

• Esther 4:12

  They told to Mordecai Esther’s words.

• Esther 4:13

  Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.

• Esther 4:14

  For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

• Esther 4:15

  Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,

• Esther 4:16

  “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

• Esther 4:17

  So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

• Esther 7:1

  So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

• Esther 7:2

  The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

• Esther 7:3

  Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

• Esther 7:4

  For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

• Esther 7:5

  Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”

• Esther 7:6

  Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

• Esther 7:7

  The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

• Esther 7:8

  Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

• Esther 7:9

  Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

• Esther 7:10

  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

• Job 14:1

  “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

• Job 14:2

  He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

• Job 14:3

  Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

• Job 14:4

  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

• Job 14:5

  Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

• Job 14:6

  Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

• Job 14:7

  “For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

• Job 14:8

  Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

• Job 14:9

  yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

• Job 14:10

  But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

• Job 28:1

  “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

• Job 28:2

  Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

• Job 28:3

  Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

• Job 28:4

  He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

• Job 28:5

  As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

• Job 28:6

  Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

• Job 28:7

  That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

• Job 28:8

  The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

• Job 28:9

  He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

• Job 28:10

  He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

• Job 28:11

  He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

• Job 28:12

  “But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

• Job 28:13

  Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

• Job 28:14

  The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

• Job 28:15

  It can’t be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

• Job 28:16

  It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

• Job 28:17

  Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

• Job 28:18

  No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

• Job 28:19

  The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

• Job 28:20

  Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

• Job 28:21

  Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

• Job 28:22

  Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

• Job 28:23

  “God understands its way, and he knows its place.

• Job 28:24

  For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

• Job 28:25

  He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

• Job 28:26

  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

• Job 28:27

  then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

• Job 28:28

  To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

• Psalms 18:1

  For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

• Psalms 18:2

  Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

• Psalms 18:3

  I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

• Psalms 18:4

  The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

• Psalms 18:5

  The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

• Psalms 18:6

  In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

• Psalms 18:7

  Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

• Psalms 18:8

  Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

• Psalms 18:9

  He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

• Psalms 18:10

  He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

• Psalms 18:11

  He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

• Psalms 18:12

  At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

• Psalms 18:13

  Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

• Psalms 18:14

  He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

• Psalms 18:15

  Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

• Psalms 18:16

  He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

• Psalms 18:17

  He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

• Psalms 18:18

  They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

• Psalms 18:19

  He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

• Psalms 77:13

  Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

• Psalms 77:14

  You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

• Psalms 77:15

  You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

• Psalms 77:16

  The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

• Psalms 77:17

  The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

• Psalms 77:18

  The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

• Psalms 77:19

  Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

• Psalms 77:20

  You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

• Ecclesiastes 12:1

  Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

• Ecclesiastes 12:2

  Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

• Ecclesiastes 12:3

  in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

• Ecclesiastes 12:4

  and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

• Ecclesiastes 12:6

  before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

• Isaiah 35:1

  The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

• Isaiah 35:2

  It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

• Isaiah 35:3

  Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

• Isaiah 35:4

  Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

• Isaiah 35:5

  Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

• Isaiah 35:6

  Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

• Isaiah 35:7

  The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

• Isaiah 35:8

  A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.

• Isaiah 35:9

  No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.

• Isaiah 35:10

  The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

• Isaiah 40:1

  “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

• Isaiah 40:2

  “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

• Isaiah 40:3

  The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

• Isaiah 40:4

  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

• Isaiah 40:5

  Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

• Isaiah 40:6

  The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

• Isaiah 40:7

  The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

• Isaiah 40:8

  The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

• Isaiah 40:9

  You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

• Isaiah 40:10

  Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

• Isaiah 40:11

  He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

• Isaiah 40:12

  Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

• Isaiah 40:13

  Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

• Isaiah 40:14

  Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

• Isaiah 40:15

  Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

• Isaiah 40:16

  Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

• Isaiah 40:17

  All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

• Isaiah 40:18

  To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

• Isaiah 40:19

  A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

• Isaiah 40:20

  He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

• Isaiah 40:21

  Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard, yet? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

• Isaiah 40:22

  It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

• Isaiah 40:23

  who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

• Isaiah 40:24

  They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

• Isaiah 40:25

  “To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

• Isaiah 40:26

  Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.

• Isaiah 40:27

  Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

• Isaiah 40:28

  Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

• Isaiah 40:29

  He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

• Isaiah 40:30

  Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

• Isaiah 40:31

  But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

• Amos 9:1

  I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

• Amos 9:2

  Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

• Amos 9:3

  Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

• Amos 9:4

  Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

• Amos 9:5

  For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

• Amos 9:6

  It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

• Habakkuk 3:3

  God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

• Habakkuk 3:4

  His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

• Habakkuk 3:5

  Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.