So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai -- at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;

who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly."

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

In the light of the king's face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

The name of Yahweh is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand."

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.

For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

"Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let's meet together for judgment.

He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you."

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.

Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying,

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;

Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.