Now when the king's commandment and commission was published, and many damsels were brought together unto the castle of Susa under the hand of Hegei, Esther was taken also unto the king's house under the hand of Hegei the keeper of the women.

And in all lands and places, as far as the king's word and commandment extended, there was great lamentation among the Jews and many fasted, wept, mourned and lay in sackcloth and in ashes.

And in all lands and cities, into what places soever the king's word and commandment reached, there was joy and mirth, prosperity and good days among the Jews: insomuch that many of the people in the land became of the Jews' belief: for the fear of the Jews came upon them.

Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands.

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone.

Thou bringest fresh witnesses against me, and thy wrath increasest thou upon me; very many are the plagues that I am in.

"Should not he that maketh many words, be answered? Should he that babbleth much, be commended therein?

Then shouldest thou take thy rest, and no man to make thee afraid, yea many one should set much by thee.

As for shame, thou hast set it aside - else wouldest thou not make so many words before God.

He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power.

They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold;

If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.

"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.

Many a one, yea innumerable doth he punish, and setteth others in their stead.

If thou sinnest, what doest thou unto him? If thine offenses be many, how gettest thou his favour?

Therefore hath Job opened his mouth but in vain, and foolishly hath he made so many words."

For then shall not thy cause be stilled with cruelty, nor pacified with many gifts.

Will he make many fair words with thee, thinkest thou, or flatter thee?

{A Psalm of David when he fled from the face of Absalom} LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! Many are they that rise against me.

Many ones there be that say of my soul, "There is no help for him in his God." Selah.

There be many that say, "Who will show us any good? LORD lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us."

He shall send down from on high to fetch me, and shall take me out of many waters. {TYNDALE: He sent from on high and fetched me, and plucked me out of mighty waters.}

Many oxen are come about me; fat bulls of Bashan close me in on every side.

For many dogs are come about me, the counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me.

Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.

But mine enemies live, and are mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number.

He hath put a new song in my mouth, even a thanksgiving unto our God. Many men seeing this, shall fear the LORD, and put their trust in him.

It is he that delivereth my soul in peace from them that lay wait for me; for they are many against me.

Mine enemies are daily at hand to swallow me up; for they be many that fight against me, O thou Most Highest.

The chariots of God are many thousand times a thousand, the LORD is among them, as in the holy place of Sinai.

I am become as it were a monster unto many, but my sure trust is in thee.

But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise.

O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert?

Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness.

How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou be avenged of mine adversaries?

Many there are that trouble me, and persecute me; yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies.

{A song of the stairs} Many a time have they fought against me from my youth up, may Israel now say.

Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up, but they have not overcome me.

Hear, my son, and receive my words, that the years of thy life may be many.

Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him

For many a one hath she wounded and cast down, yea many a strong man hath she slain.

For through me thy days shall be prolonged, and the years of thy life shall be many.

Where no good counsel is, there the people decay; but whereas are many that can give counsel, there is wealth.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbours; but the rich hath many friends.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a full house and many fat cattle with strife.

Riches make many friends; but the poor is forsaken of his own friends.

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

Many there be that would be called good-doers; but where shall one find a true faithful man?

A mouth of understanding is more worth than gold, many precious stones, and costly Jewels.

For with discretion must wars be taken in hand, and whereas are many that can give counsel, there is the victory.

Many there be that seek the prince's favour, but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.

Many daughters there be that gather riches together, but thou goest above them all.

For where much carefulness is, there are many dreams: and where many words are, there men may hear fools.

And why? Whereas are many dreams and many words, there are also divers vanities: but look that thou fear God.

Whereas many riches are, there are many also that spend them away. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, saving that he may look upon them with his eyes?

If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Many things there be that increase vanity, and what hath a man else?

Send thy victuals over the waters, and so shalt thou find them after many years.

If a man live many years, and be glad in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, which shall be many: And when they come, all things shall be but vanity.

The same preacher was not wise alone, but taught the people knowledge also: he gave good heed, sought out the ground and set forth many parables.

Therefore beware, my son, that above these thou make them not many and innumerable books, nor take divers doctrines in hand, to weary thy body withal.

As for my loved, he is white and red colored, a singular person among many thousands;

so that many waters are not able to quench love, neither may the streams drown it. Yea, if a man would give all the good of his house for love, he should count it nothing.

Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats.

When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood.

And he shall be judge among the heathen and tell many nations their faults. And they shall turn their swords into mattocks and their spears into scythes. One nation shall not lift up a sword against another, neither shall they teach to war any more.

But thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they go far beyond the east countries in Sorcerers - who they have as the Philistines had - and in calkers of men's births, whereof they have too many.

The LORD of Hosts roundeth me thus in mine ear: Shall not many greater and more gorgeous houses be so waste, that no man shall dwell in them?

And many shall stumble, fall, and be broken upon him: yea they shall be snared and taken."

Woe be to the multitude of much people, which shall make a sound like the noise of the sea; and the violence of the nations which shall rage like the rushing in of many waters.

Even like many waters shall the people rage: God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and vanish away like the dust with the wind upon a hill, and as the whirlwind through a storm.

There shall ye see the rifts in the walls of the city of David, whereof there shall be many. Ye shall gather together the waters of the lower pool,

Woe be unto them that go down into Egypt for help, and trust in horses, and comfort themselves in chariots, because they be many, and in horsemen because they be lusty and strong. But they regard not the holy one of Israel, and they ask no question at the LORD.

Thou hast hitherto had many counsels of them; so let the heaven gazers and the beholders of stars come on now and deliver thee: yea, and let them show when these new things shall come upon thee.

Therefore I will give him his part in many, and the spoil of the rich he shall divide: because he gave his soul to death, and was numbered with the trespassers, and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.

Then the places that have ever been waste, shall be builded of thee: there shalt thou lay a foundation for many kindreds. Thou shalt be called the maker-up of hedges, and the builder-again of the way of the Sabbath.

For our offenses are many before thee, and our sins testify against us. Yea, we must confess that we offend, and acknowledge that we do amiss:

They shall build the long rough wildernesses, and set up the old desert. They shall repair the waste places, and such as have been void throughout many generations.

I shall answer them: Where are now thy gods, that thou hast made thee? Bid them stand up, and help thee in the time of need! For look how many cities thou hast, O Judah: so many gods hast thou also.

Commonly, when a man putteth away his wife, and she goeth from him, and marrieth with another, then the question is: should he resort unto her any more after that? Is not this field then defiled and unclean? But as for thee, thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, yet turn again to me, sayeth the LORD.

Wherefore a lion out of the wood shall hurt them, and a wolf in the evening shall destroy them. The cat of the mountain shall lie lurking by their cities, to tare in pieces all them that come thereout. For their offenses are many, and their departing away is great.

For as many cities as thou hast, O Judah, so many gods hast thou also: And look how many streets there be in thee, O Jerusalem: so many shameful altars have ye set up, to offer upon them unto Baal.

"Doubtless our own wickedness reward us: But LORD do thou according to thy name, though our transgressions and sins be many.

Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will send out many fishers to take them, and after that will I send out many hunters to hunt them out, from all mountains and hills and out of the caves of stones.

For why? I heard so many derisions and blasphemies, yea even of my own companions, and such as were conversant with me: which went about, to make me afraid, saying, "Upon him; let us go upon him, to fear him, and make him hold his tongue: that we may overcome him, and be avenged of him."

And all people shall serve him, and his son, and his child's children, until the time of the same land be come also: Yea, many people and great kings shall serve him.

either of peace, upon many nations and great kingdoms - were proved by this, if God had sent them in very deed: when the thing came to pass, which that prophet told before."

Then took Jeremiah another book, and gave it Baruch the Scribe, the son of Neriah, which wrote therein out of the mouth of Jeremiah all the sermons that were in the first book, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah did burn. And there were added unto them many more sermons than before."

and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, "O hear our petition, that thou mayest pray for us unto the LORD thy God, and for the remnant, whereof there be very few left of many, as thou seest us:

Behold, there shall come a people from the North, with a great bound of men, and many kings shall stand up from the ends of the earth.

Like as Babylon hath beaten down and slain many out of Israel, so shall there fall many, and be slain, in all her kingdom.

{Gimel} Judah is taken prisoner, because she was defiled: and for serving so many strange gods, she dwelleth now among the heathen. She findeth no rest: all they that persecuted her, took her in strait places where she could not escape.

Not to many nations which have divers speeches and hard languages, whose words thou understandest not. Nevertheless, if I sent thee to those people, they would follow thee:

Many a one have ye murdered in this city, and filled the streets full of the slain.

"Behold, thou son of man: The house of Israel say in this manner, 'Tush, as for the vision that he hath seen, it will be many a day or it come to pass: It is far off yet, the thing that he prophesieth.'

They shall burn up thy houses, and punish thee in the sight of many women. Thus will I make thy whoredom to cease, so that thou shalt give out no more rewards.

But there was another Eagle, a great one, which had great wings and many feathers: and behold, the roots of this vine had a hunger after him, and spread out his branches toward him, to water his fruits.

Speak thou therefore, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Shall this vine prosper? Shall not his roots be plucked out, his fruit be broken off, his green branches wither and fade away? Yea without either strong armies or many people, shall it be plucked up by the roots.

"As for thy mother, she is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waterside: her fruits and branches are grown out of many waters,