Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart; but when he saw Mordecai in the king's doorway, and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made, and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully to the banquet with the king.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

And the king in his wrath got up from the feast and went into the garden: and Haman got to his feet to make a prayer for his life to Esther the queen: for he saw that the king's purpose was evil against him.

Harbona, one of the royal eunuchs, said: “There is a gallows 75 feet tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.”

The king commanded, “Hang him on it.”

And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

Write {as you see fit} concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal [it] with the king's signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring cannot be revoked."

In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

These days are remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim will not lose their significance in Jewish life and their memory will not fade from their descendants.

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.

The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

Can tasteless [food] be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?

My soul refuseth to touch them ; They are as loathsome food to me.

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.

But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this to bring me into a legal fight with you?

Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.

Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

[Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

{When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;

You have given no water [for the] weary to drink, and you withheld food from [the] hungry.

For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

"Would he use his great power to fight me? No, he'll pay attention to me.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Even if his children increase, they are destined for the sword;
his descendants will never have enough food.

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

[As for the] earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as [by] fire.

Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

when my feet were bathed in cream
and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

the young men saw me and withdrew,
while older men stood to their feet.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,

If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

“I assure you, the men of my tent have said,
‘Who can find one [in need] who has not been satisfied with his meat’?

He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

Why do you fight against Him? For He does not give account for any of His matters.

So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

Indeed, He lured you from the jaws of distress
to a spacious and unconfined place.
Your table was spread with choice food.

For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Their sons will be fat, they will increase with grain; they will go forth and not turn back to them.

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

He breaketh the ground with the hooves of his feet cheerfully in his strength, and runneth to meet the harness men.

When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,

His young ones are fed with blood, and where any dead body lieth, there is he immediately."

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

look well, that thou makest all such as be stubburn, to obey; tread all the ungodly under thy feet,

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!