There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict came. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.

Then Haman described for them his glorious wealth and his many sons. He told them all how the king had honored him and promoted him in rank over the other officials and the royal staff.

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday. And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews had overcome them.

Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, famous among the Jews, and highly popular with many of his relatives. He continued to seek good for his people and to speak for the welfare of all his descendants.

Indeed, you have instructed many
and have strengthened weak hands.

You will also know that your offspring will be many
and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

You will lie down without fear,
and many will seek your favor.

How many iniquities and sins have I committed?
Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

I have heard many things like these.
You are all miserable comforters.

He will certainly accomplish what He has decreed for me,
and He has many more things like these in mind.

A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.Lord, how my foes increase!
There are many who attack me.

Many say about me,
“There is no help for him in God.”Selah

Many are saying, “Who can show us anything good?”
Look on us with favor, Lord.

Punish them, God;
let them fall by their own schemes.
Drive them out because of their many crimes,
for they rebel against You.

Many bulls surround me;
strong ones of Bashan encircle me.

I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life.

Many pains come to the wicked,
but the one who trusts in the Lord
will have faithful love surrounding him.

Many adversities come to the one who is righteous,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.

I will praise You in the great congregation;
I will exalt You among many people.

The little that the righteous man has is better
than the abundance of many wicked people.

But my enemies are vigorous and powerful;
many hate me for no reason.

He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.

Lord my God, You have done many things—
Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;
none can compare with You.
If I were to report and speak of them,
they are more than can be told.

I remember this as I pour out my heart:
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.

Though many are against me,
He will redeem me from my battle unharmed.

My adversaries trample me all day,
for many arrogantly fight against me.

Add days to the king’s life;
may his years span many generations.

Mount Bashan is God’s towering mountain;
Mount Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.

I have become an ominous sign to many,
but You are my strong refuge.

You caused me to experience
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.

Make us rejoice for as many days as You have humbled us,
for as many years as we have seen adversity.

Greater than the roar of many waters—
the mighty breakers of the sea—
the Lord on high is majestic.

The Lord reigns! Let the earth rejoice;
let the many coasts and islands be glad.

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

He rescued them many times,
but they continued to rebel deliberately
and were beaten down by their sin.

I will fervently thank the Lord with my mouth;
I will praise Him in the presence of many.

How many days must Your servant wait?
When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

Your compassions are many, Lord;
give me life according to Your judgments.

My persecutors and foes are many.
I have not turned from Your decrees.

He struck down many nations
and slaughtered mighty kings:

for they will bring you
many days, a full life, and well-being.

Listen, my son. Accept my words,
and you will live many years.

For she has brought many down to death;
her victims are countless.

For by Wisdom your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life.

When there are many words, sin is unavoidable,
but the one who controls his lips is wise.

The lips of the righteous feed many,
but fools die for lack of sense.

Without guidance, people fall,
but with many counselors there is deliverance.

A poor man is hated even by his neighbor,
but there are many who love the rich.

Plans fail when there is no counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.

A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

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Wealth attracts many friends,
but a poor man is separated from his friend.

Many seek a ruler’s favor,
and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
but the Lord’s decree will prevail.

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty,
but who can find a trustworthy man?

for you should wage war with sound guidance—
victory comes with many counselors.

When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers,
but with a discerning and knowledgeable person, it endures.

A faithful man will have many blessings,
but one in a hurry to get rich
will not go unpunished.

The one who gives to the poor
will not be in need,
but one who turns his eyes away
will receive many curses.

One who becomes stiff-necked,
after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery.

Many seek a ruler’s favor,
but a man receives justice from the Lord.

“Many women are capable,
but you surpass them all!”

I acquired male and female servants and had slaves who were born in my house. I also owned many herds of cattle and flocks, more than all who were before me in Jerusalem.

I also amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered male and female singers for myself, and many concubines, the delights of men.

For dreams result from much work and a fool’s voice from many words.

For many dreams bring futility, so do many words. Therefore, fear God.

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

For when there are many words, they increase futility. What is the advantage for man?

for you know that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”

Send your bread on the surface of the waters,
for after many days you may find it.

Indeed, if a man lives many years,
let him rejoice in them all,
and let him remember the days of darkness, since they will be many.
All that comes is futile.

In addition to the Teacher being a wise man, he constantly taught the people knowledge; he weighed, explored, and arranged many proverbs.

But beyond these, my son, be warned: there is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.

and many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us about His ways
so that we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

He will settle disputes among the nations
and provide arbitration for many peoples.
They will turn their swords into plows
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,
and they will never again train for war.

I heard the Lord of Hosts say:

Indeed, many houses will become desolate,
grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.

Many will stumble over these;
they will fall and be broken;
they will be snared and captured.

But this is not what he intends;
this is not what he plans.
It is his intent to destroy
and to cut off many nations.

Ah! The roar of many peoples—
they roar like the roaring of the seas.
The raging of the nations—
they rage like the raging of mighty waters.

The nations rage like the raging of many waters.
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

on many waters.
Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor—
the harvest of the Nile.
She was the merchant among the nations.

Pick up your lyre,
stroll through the city,
prostitute forgotten by men.
Play skillfully,
sing many a song,
and you will be thought of again.

They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit.
They will be confined to a dungeon;
after many days they will be punished.

You have mocked the Lord through your servants.
You have said, “With my many chariots
I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars,
its choice cypress trees.
I came to its distant heights,
its densest forest.

See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,
new, with many teeth.
You will thresh mountains and pulverize them
and make hills into chaff.

Though seeing many things, you do not obey.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?

These two things will happen to you
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.

So take your stand with your spells
and your many sorceries,
which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.
Perhaps you will be able to succeed;
perhaps you will inspire terror!

You are worn out with your many consultations.
So let them stand and save you—
the astrologers, who observe the stars,
who predict monthly
what will happen to you.

Look to Abraham your father,
and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.
When I called him, he was only one;
I blessed him and made him many.

Just as many were appalled at You—
His appearance was so disfigured
that He did not look like a man,
and His form did not resemble a human being—

He will see it out of His anguish,
and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.
My righteous Servant will justify many,
and He will carry their iniquities.

Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion,
and He will receive the mighty as spoil,
because He submitted Himself to death,
and was counted among the rebels;
yet He bore the sin of many
and interceded for the rebels.

You became weary on your many journeys,
but you did not say, “I give up!”
You found a renewal of your strength;
therefore you did not grow weak.

They will rebuild the ancient ruins;
they will restore the former devastations;
they will renew the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.

I will make known the Lord’s faithful love
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
He has done for the house of Israel
and has done for them based on His compassion
and the abundance of His faithful love.

For the Lord will execute judgment
on all flesh with His fiery sword,
and many will be slain by the Lord.

If a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?
Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled?
But you!
You have played the prostitute with many partners—
can you return to Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.