On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he [was] to her.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

what wise men have told, and they have not hidden [that which is] from their ancestors,

Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and {you will expect that God will be good to you}.

Or, in Shaddai will he find delight? Will he call upon God at all times?

Indeed, he says, 'A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.'

Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?

Who can number [the] clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars,

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.

Instead, in the law of Yahweh [is] his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.

I will sing to Yahweh because he has dealt bountifully with me.

O Yahweh, [the] king will rejoice in your strength, and how greatly he will delight in your help.

Descendants will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the [next] generation.

Let them shout for joy and be glad, who delight in my vindication; and let them say continually, "Yahweh is great, who delights in the welfare of his servant."

'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law [is] {deep within me}.'"

By this I know that you delight in me: because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.

O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old.

Behold, you delight [in] truth in the inward parts, and in [the] hidden [parts] you make me to know wisdom.

For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.

Then you will delight [in] righteous sacrifices, burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then bulls will be offered on your altar.

Rebuke [the] beasts in [the] reeds, [the] herd of bulls with [the] calves of [the] peoples, trampling the pieces of silver. Scatter [the] nations [who] delight in battles.

Remember your congregation [that] you bought long ago, [when] you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. [Remember] {Mount Zion} where you have dwelt.

We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, and your name is near. Your wonderful deeds are told.

that we have heard and known, and our ancestors have told us.

Is your loyal love told in the grave, [or] your faithfulness in the underworld?

If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities.

Because he loved cursing, let it come [upon] him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

The works of Yahweh [are] great, studied by all [who] delight [in] them.

Praise Yah! Blessed [is the] man [who] fears Yahweh; he takes great delight in his commands.

Return, O my soul, to your repose, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

With my lips I have told [of] all the ordinances of your mouth.

I will take delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Your testimonies [are] my delight, {my counselors}.

I told of my ways, and you answered me; teach me your statutes.

Cause me to walk in the path of your commands, for I delight in it.

And I will take delight in your commands, which I love.

You have dealt well with your servant, O Yahweh, according to your word.

Their heart [is] insensitive like fat; As for me, I take delight in your law.

Let your mercies come [to] me, that I may live, for your law [is] my delight.

Unless your law [had been] my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.

Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me.

I long for your salvation, O Yahweh, and your law [is] my delight.

He does not delight in the strength of the horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of the man.

"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

Come, let us take [our] fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love.

rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight [was] with the children of humankind.

An abomination of Yahweh [are] the {crooked of heart}, but his delight [are] {those with blameless ways}.

An abomination of Yahweh are lips of deceit, but they who act faithfully [are] his delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

The delight of kings [are] the lips of righteousness, and he who speaks what is upright he will love.

My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.

But they who rebuke will have delight, and upon them blessings of goodness will come.

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul.

I also gathered to myself silver and gold--the royal and provincial treasuries. I acquired for myself male and female singers, as well as the delight of {men}, {voluptuous concubines}.

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God!

As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so [is] my beloved among the young men. In his shade {I sat down with delight}, and his fruit [was] sweet to my palate.

I [was] a wall, and my breasts [were] like the towers, {so [my betrothed] viewed me with great delight}.

What [is the] abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough [of] burnt offerings of rams and [the] fat [of] fattened animals and I do not delight in [the] blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.

The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the man of Judah [is] the plantation of his delight. [And] he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!

Look! I [am] stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.

A hard revelation is told to me; the treacherous deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; lay siege, Media! I put an end to all of her sighing.

My {mind} staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight {I desired} {brought} me fear.

mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over [the] fruitful vine,

Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him! When you {cease} destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the {palace}, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder, came to Hezekiah [with] torn garments and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from [the] {beginning}? Have you not understood [from] the foundation of the earth?

you whom I grasped from the ends of the earth and called from its remotest parts and told, "You [are] my servant; I have chosen you and I have not rejected you."

so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths. For they shall see what has not been told them, and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.

For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose that in which I delight, and who keep hold of my covenant.

'Why do we fast, and you do not see [it]? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice [it]?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!

We grope like the blind [along] a wall, and we grope {as without} eyes. We stumble at noon as [in] the twilight; among the strong [we are] like the dead.

It shall no longer be said of you, "Forsaken," and it shall no longer be said of your land, "Desolation!" but {you will} be called "My Delight [Is] In Her," and your land, "Married," for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.

and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen, but you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight."

Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment, and I will bring them objects of their dread, because I called, and {no one answered}; I spoke and they did not listen, but they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight."

However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," {declares} Yahweh.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt utterly treacherously with me," {declares} Yahweh.

To whom shall I speak and admonish, that they may hear? Look, their ears [are] {closed}, and they are not able to listen attentively. Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn, they do not delight in it.

{But only} in this must the one who boasts boast, [that] he has insight, and [that] he knows me, that I [am] Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these [things] I delight," {declares} Yahweh.

For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.

[Is] this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel? Or a vessel [in which] there is no delight? Why are he and his offspring thrown far, and cast away to the land that they do not know?"

[Is] Ephraim my dear son, or [the] child of [my] delight? For {as often as} I have earnestly spoken against him, I still remember him. {Therefore} my bowels are turbulent for him, surely I will have compassion on him," {declares} Yahweh.

And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard at the reading aloud of Baruch from the scroll in the hearing of the people.

So I have told you {today}, and you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, or of {anything} that he sent me for you.

On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, [there is] wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," {declares} Yahweh.

{Therefore} desert creatures will live [there] with jackals, and daughters of ostriches will inhabit her. And she will not be inhabited again {forever}, and she will not be dwelt in {for all generations}.

Is it nothing to you, {all who pass by}? Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the {day of his wrath}.

Let all their evil come before you; and deal with them just as you have dealt with me because of all my crimes; for my groaning is much and my heart [is] faint.

See, Yahweh, and take note! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their young children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

to subvert a person in a legal dispute --the Lord has not found delight [in these things].

Have I delight by any means [in the] death of [the] wicked, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, [and] not at his turning from his way, {so that} he lives?

"Say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I [will be] profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength [and] the delight of your eyes and the object of your own affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword,

"And you, son of man, [will it] not [be that] on the day {when I take from them} their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their inner self, their sons and daughters--

And they will plunder your wealth, and they will loot your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and the houses of your delight they will break down, and your stones and your timbers and your earthen dirt they will cast into the midst of [the] water.

then I gave it into [the] hand of [the] leader of nations; he {dealt thoroughly} with it according to its wickedness. I drove it [out].

Say to them, '{As I live},' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, '{Surely I have no delight} in the death of the wicked, {except} in [the] wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil [ones], for why should you die, house of Israel?'