So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the citadel, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

And in every province, and in every city, wherever the king's command and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yea, many shall entreat your favor.

How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.

For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Will he make many supplications unto you? will he speak soft words unto you?

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round about.

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is upon many waters.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.

What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among many people.

A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.

And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many against me.

My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they are many that fight against me, O most High.

You will prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall crush the heads over many countries.

How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not turn from your testimonies.

[A song of ascents.] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he be appeased, though you give many gifts.

For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.

There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge its state shall be prolonged.

He that gives unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

Many seek the ruler's favor; but every man's judgment comes from the LORD.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also many vanities: but you fear God.

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.

Since there are many things that increase vanity, how is man the better?

Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.

Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days.

But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

And further, my son, be admonished by these: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, it would utterly be rejected.

And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And he shall judge between the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

In my hearing said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

And the LORD has removed men far away, and there are many forsaken places in the midst of the land.

Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Woe to the multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Take an harp, go about the city, you harlot that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be punished.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he hears not.

As many were astonished at you; so his appearance was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

So shall he startle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

And they from among you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of streets to dwell in.

Although you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, may he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the desert shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall catch them; and afterward will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

For I heard the mocking of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my friends watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus unto this great city?

For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his own land comes: and then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.

The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these deeds, this deed of purchase, which is sealed, and this deed which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.

Neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners.

Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us unto the LORD your God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do behold us:)

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.

He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.