<p class="poetry">My enemies&#8217; taunts cut into me to the bone,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as they say to me all day long, &#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For the matter concerning the queen will spread to all the women, leading them to treat their husbands with contempt, saying, &#8216;When King Ahasuerus gave orders to bring Queen Vashti into his presence, she would not come.&#8217;

And after they had spoken to him day after day<n id="1" /> without his paying any attention to them, they informed Haman to see whether this attitude on Mordecai&#8217;s part would be permitted.<n id="2" /> Furthermore, he had disclosed to them that he was a Jew.<n id="3" />p>