to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, in order to show the people and the princes her beauty, for she was beautiful to look on.

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she rose in grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins. And he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

let the royal clothing be brought, which the king wears, and the horse that the king rides on, and the royal crown which is set on his head.

And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

It shall be done before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge foolishness.

They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.

Their young ones are strong, they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them again.

He seeks out mountains for his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

Will you trust him, that he will return your seed and gather it to your grain-floor?

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come on his own crown.

For You go before him with the blessings of goodness; You set a crown of pure gold on his head.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

For they shall soon wither like the grass; and fade as the green herb.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.

You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it.

You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drop fatness.

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

Yea, God shall wound the head of His enemies, and the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt.

There shall be a fullness of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

and had rained down manna on them to eat, and He gave them of the grain of the heavens.

You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground.

I will clothe his enemies with shame; but his crown shall shine on him.

so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;

She shall give to your hand an ornament of grace; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.

He who withholds grain, the people shall curse him; but blessing is on the head of him who sells.

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

The crown of the wise is their riches of wisdom; the foolishness of fools is folly.

The gray head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.

For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation.

Behold, you are beautiful, my Beloved, yea, pleasant. Also our bed is green.

the fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, My love, My beautiful one, and come away.

Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

therefore Jehovah will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will make their secret parts naked.

For the waters of Nimrim are desolation; for the hay has dried up and the grass fails, there is no green thing.

And it shall be as reaping of the harvest grain, and his arm reaps the ears. And it shall be as he who gathers ears in the Valley of the Giants.

O my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine!

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled under foot;

In that day Jehovah of Hosts shall be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the rest of His people,

Bread grain is crushed, but not always does one thresh it with threshing. And he drives the wheel of his cart; and his horses do not beat it small.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

And their inhabitants were short of hand; dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, even grain blasted before it has risen.

And this shall be a sign to you: You shall eat self-sown grain this year; and the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year you shall sow, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

And your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like its grain; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

being inflamed with idols under every green tree, killing the little sons in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

You also will be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

Jehovah has sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and the sons of strangers will not drink your wine for which you have labored.

Also the sons of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of your head.

For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot.

Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her seasons; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow watch the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah.

Speak, So says Jehovah, Even the bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the fallen grain after the reaper; and none shall gather them.

Jehovah called your name, a green olive tree, fair, with fine fruit. With the sound of a great storm He has set fire to it, and its branches are worthless.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your greatness shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.

while their sons remember their altars and their Asherahs by the green trees on the high hills.

For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; it sends out its roots by the river, and it shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit.

And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and grain offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of Jehovah.

O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?

nor shall the priests the Levites lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle grain offerings, and to do sacrifice forever.

Those who fled stood powerless in the shadow of Heshbon, for a fire shall come out from Heshbon, and a flame out of the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the sons of desolation.

So, behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will punish her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

They say to their mothers, Where are grain and wine? In their fainting they are like the wounded in the streets of the city, in their pouring out their lives to their mothers' bosom.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.

Then you shall know that I am Jehovah, when their dead shall be among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, the place where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.

I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come in the finest ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare.

And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I Jehovah have spoken and acted.

And say to the forest of the south, Hear the Word of Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall burn up every green tree in you, and every dry tree among you. The flaming flame shall not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it.

And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your loins; and groan with bitterness before their eyes.

And it will be when they say to you, Why do you groan? You shall answer, Because of the news that it is coming; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be, says the Lord Jehovah.

So says the Lord Jehovah: Remove the diadem, and take off the crown. This shall not be as it was. Lift up the low one, and put down the high one.

Groan but be silent; make no mourning for the dead; tie your turban on you, and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover your lips, and do not eat the bread of men.

So says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the slain groan, when the slaughter is made in your midst?

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put My sword in his hand. But I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of one who is stabbed.

I will also save you from all your defilements, and I will call for the grain, and will increase it, and will lay no famine on you.

it is you, O king, for you have become great and strong, for your greatness has grown and reached to the heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.

The same hour the thing was fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

and the earth shall hear the grain and the wine and the oil. And they shall hear Jezreel.

And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.

O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God; you have loved a reward on every grain floor.

They who dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive like the grain, and grow like the vine. Their scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him and watched him; I am like a green fir tree. Your fruit is found from Me.

The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops.

The seed is rotten under their clods; the storage bins are laid waste; the barns are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are troubled because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are destroyed.

Yes, Jehovah will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you a curse among the nations.

Do not be afraid, beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness grow green; for the tree bears its fruit, and the fig tree and the vine yield their strength.