You will not fight in this battle. Take your positions, stand, and watch the Lord deliver you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! Tomorrow march out toward them; the Lord is with you!’”

After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease.

The entire group numbered 42,360,

The entire group numbered 42,360,

“Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.

Esther responded, “My request and my petition is this:

For the Jews there was radiant happiness and joyous honor.

a trembling gripped me – and a terror! – and made all my bones shake.

Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.