you young men and young women, you elderly, along with you children!

Now when the young women were being gathered again, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

The king’s servants who attended him said, “Let a search be conducted in the king’s behalf for attractive young women.

In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.

Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea: “I have not gone into labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”