Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, and hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: nevertheless our God turned the curse into a blessing.

In the first month, that is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus they cast Pur - that is, a lot - before Haman, on what day and what month this should be done: and it went out the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.

And the writings were sent by posts into all the king's lands, to root out, to kill, and to destroy all Jews, both young and old, children and women in one day, - namely upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar - and to spoil their goods.

upon one day in all the lands of king Ahasuerus, namely upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

In the twelfth month, that is the month Adar, upon the thirteenth day, which the king's word and commandment had appointed, that it should be done, even upon the same day that the enemies should have destroyed the Jews to have oppressed them, it turned contrary wise, even that the Jews should subdue their enemies.

And the Jews gathered themselves together at Susa, upon the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Susa, but on their goods they laid no hands.

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the same month rested they, which day they ordained to be a day of feasting and gladness.

Therefore the Jews that dwelt in the villages and unwalled towns ordained the fourteenth day of the month Adar, to be a day of feasting and gladness, and one sent gifts to another.

that they should yearly receive and hold the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar,

For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.

Which giveth rain upon the earth, and poureth water upon all things;

Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.

May a rush be green without moisture, or may the grass grow without water?

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,

yet when the stock getteth the scent of water, it will bud, and bring forth bows, like as when it was first planted.

How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:

To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

Shouldest thou then see no darkness? Should not the water flood run over thee?

which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water,

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

He bindeth the water in his clouds, and the cloud is not broken under them.

Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.

For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

He turneth the water to small drops, he driveth his clouds

I am weary of my groaning; every night wash I my bed, and water my couch with my tears.

He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about him; with dark waters and thick clouds to cover him. {TYNDALE: And he made darkness a tabernacle round about him, with water gathered together in thick clouds.}

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.

The LORD sitteth above the water-flood, and the LORD remaineth a King forever.

For this shall every saint make his prayer unto thee in due season; but in the great water-floods they shall not come nigh him.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

One deep calleth another with the voice of thy water-pipes, all thy waves and water floods are gone over me.

Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

Let them fall away like water that runneth a pace; and when they shoot their arrows, let them be rooted out.

{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.

He turned the sea into dry land, so that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof.

Thou hast suffered men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool, even as the drops that water the earth.

The thick clouds poured out water, the air thundered, and thine arrows went abroad.

Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them.

who going through the vale of misery use it for a well; and the pools are filled with water.

They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together on every side.

Thou shalt go upon the Lion and Adder, the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water, and watersprings of a dry ground.

He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: yea it went into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

which turned the hard rock into a standing water, and the flint stone into a springing well.

Mine eyes gush out with water, because men keep not thy law.

Drink of the water of thine own well, and of the rivers that run out of thine own springs.

Let thy wells flow out abroad, that there may be rivers of water in the streets:

When I was born, there were neither depths nor springs of water.

He that soweth discord and strife, is like one that diggeth up a water brook; but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out and runneth abroad.

Wise counsel in the heart of man is like a water in the deep of the earth; but he that hath understanding bringeth it forth.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like as are the rivers of water; he may turn it whithersoever he will.

It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.

A good report out of a far country, is like cold water to a thirsty soul.

Like as in one water there appear divers faces, even so divers men have divers hearts.

There be three things that are never satisfied, and the fourth sayeth never, "Hoo." The hell, a woman's womb, and the earth hath never water enough. As for fire, it sayeth never, "Hoo."

I made pools of water, to water the green and fruitful trees withal.

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water brooks, as though they were washed with milk and set like pearls in gold.

Thy neck is as it were a tower of ivory; thine eyes are like the water pools in Heshbon, by the port of Bathrabbim. Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.

Thy silver is turned to dross, and thy wine mixed with water.

Therefore is the wrath of the LORD kindled also against his people, and he shaketh his hand at them: yea he shall smite so, that the hills shall tremble. And their carcasses shall lie in the open streets, like mire. And in all this, the wrath of God shall not cease, but he shall stretch his hand wider.

For at the same time shall the LORD whistle for the flies that are about the water of Egypt, and for the bees in the Assyrian land.

At the same time shall the LORD shave the hair of the head and the feet and the beard clean off, with the razor that he shall hire beyond the water: namely, with the king of the Assyrians.

"Forasmuch as the people refuseth the still-running water of Siloam, and put their delight in Rezin and Remaliah's son:

Behold, the Lord shall bring mighty and great floods of water upon them: namely, the king of the Assyrians with all his power. Which shall pour out his furiousness upon every man, and run over all their banks.

No man shall do evil to another, no man shall destroy another, in all the hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, even as though the water of the sea flowed over the earth.

And ye shall draw water in gladness out of the wells of salvation.

and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it. and I will sweep them out with the broom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Rejoice not, thou whole Philistia, as though the rod of him that beateth thee were broken: For out of the serpent's root, there shall come an adder, and the fruit shall be a fiery worm.

which sendeth her message over the sea in ships of reeds upon the water. Get ye hence, ye speedy messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and robbed of that they had: a fearful nation from their beginning hitherto; a nation trodden down by little and little, whose land the floods have spoiled.

The water of the sea shall be drawn out, the Nile shall sink away, and be drunk up.

The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water shall be faint hearted.

Meet the thirsty with water, O ye citizens of Tema; meet those with bread that are fled.

And ye shall make a pit betwixt the twain walls of the water of the old pool, and nothing regard him that took it in hand, and made it long ago.

For by sea were there fruits brought unto thee, and all manner of corn by water. Thou wast the common market of all people.

Go through thy land, O thou daughter of the sea, as men go over the water; for thou hast no more strength.

I the LORD keep it, and water it in due season. I watch day and night, that no man break into it.

In that time shall the LORD shoot from the swift water of Euphrates, unto the river of Egypt. And there shall the children be chosen out one by one.

Behold, the strength and power of the LORD shall break into the land on every side, like a tempest of hail that beareth down strongholds, and like a horrible, mighty and overflowing water.

And your destruction shall be like as an earthen pot, which breaketh no man touching it, yea and breaketh so sore, that a man shall not find a shiver of it to fetch fire in, or to take water withal out of the pit."

And though the LORD giveth you the bread of adversity, and the water of trouble, thine instructor flyeth not far from thee; if thine eyes look unto thine instructor,

His breath is like a vehement flood of water, which goeth up to the throat. That he may take away the people, which have turned themselves unto vanity, and the bridle of error, that lieth in other folks' jaws.

He shall be unto men, as a defense for the wind, and as a refuge for the tempest, like as a river of water in a thirsty place, and the shadow of a great rock in a dry land.

Then shall the lame man leap as a hart and the dumb man's tongue shall give thanks. In the wilderness also, there shall wells spring, and floods of water in the desert.

The dry ground shall turn to rivers, and the thirsty to springs of water. Whereas dragons dwelt afore, there shall grow sweet flowers and green rushes.

But thus sayeth the king of Assyria, 'Obtain my favour, incline to me: so may every man enjoy his vineyards and fig trees, and drink the water of his cistern:

If there be no water, I will grave and drink. And as for waters of defense, I shall dry them up with the feet of mine Host.

When the thirsty and poor seek water, and find none, and when their tongue is dry of thirst: I give it them, sayeth the LORD. I, the God of Israel, forsake them not.

I bring forth floods in the hills, and wells in the plain fields. I turn the wilderness to rivers, and the dry land to conduits of water.

I will make waste both mountain and hill, and dry up every green thing that groweth thereon. I will dry up the floods of water, and drink up the rivers.

If thou goest through the water, I will be with thee, that the strong floods should not pluck thee away. When thou walkest in the fire, it shall not burn thee, and the flame shall not kindle upon thee.

Behold, I shall make a new thing, and shortly shall it appear. Ye shall well know it; I told it you afore, but I will tell it you again. I will make streets in the desert, and rivers of water in the wilderness.

The wild beasts shall worship me: the dragon, and the Ostrich. For I shall give water in the wilderness, and streams in the desert: that I may give drink to my people, whom I choose.

For I shall pour water upon the dry ground, and rivers upon the thirsty. I shall pour my spirit upon thy seed, and mine increase upon thy stock.