and Thou art righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly;

After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed down, and did reverence to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence.

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 Mordecai hath known all that hath been done, and Mordecai rendeth his garments, and putteth on sackcloth and ashes, and goeth forth into the midst of the city and crieth -- a cry loud and bitter,

And the king will say, What honor was done and greatness to Mordecai for this? And the young men of the king serving him will say, Not a word was done with him.

and the king saith to Esther the queen, 'In Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the provinces of the king what have they done? and what is thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request again? and it is done.'

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

Mordecai wrote these matters down and sent letters to all the Jews who were throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

If I lay down, and I said, When shall I arise, and the evening be measured? And I was filled with tossings even to the twilight

Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.

For there is hope for a tree if it shall be cut down, and it shall yet revive, and its suckers shall not cease.

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.

Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

see that their increase shall be hewn down, and their posterity consumed with fire.

In the field - -a man's fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;

Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

God tells them what they have done
and how arrogantly they have transgressed.

Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.

Then [the] animal goes into [its] den, and it remains in its den.

when they bow down and bring forth; they send out their pangs.

stared down and subdued every proud person, trampled the wicked right where they are,

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

For the foundations will be cast down, and what hath the righteous done?

The impious hath said in his heart - There is no God! They have acted corruptly, they have done an abominable deed, there is none that doeth good.

The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

He reached down and took me; he drew me from many waters.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

Thou wilt set them as a furnace of fire for the time of thy face: Jehovah in his anger will swallow them down, and the fire shall devour them.

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations will bow down and worship before You,

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship before him, and all they going down to dust shall bow down, and he preserved not alive his soul.

Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

For as grass hastening they shall be cut down, and as the greenness of grass they shall fall away.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

But God will break you down forever;
He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

I will give thanks to you forever, because [of what] you have done, and I will wait on your name, because [it is] good, in the presence of your faithful ones.

Attend to me and answer me; I shall flow down and make a noise in my complaint

and all people will fear. They will proclaim what God has done, and reflect on his deeds.

so that [the] inhabitants of [the] farthest reaches are in awe of your signs. You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy.

The streams of water shall not overflow me, and the depth shall not swallow me down, and the well shall not close upon me her mouth.

Before him the coastlands will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust.

For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them down, and drink them.

I will reflect on all You have done
and meditate on Your actions.

They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them.

It was cut down and burned up;
they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Enter! let us bow down, and bend low, Let us kneel, before Yahweh our maker;

My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.

I anticipate the morning-dawn and I cry: I hope in thy word.

By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.

Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

If I take the wings of the dawn and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to lie down and rest”—

For many are the victims she has cast down,
And numerous are all her slain.

Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.

A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring
Is a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked.

He whose spirit is without restraint Is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

For if they fall, one will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to help him up.

Also if two shall lie down, and heat to them: and to the one it shall not be warm.

There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.

In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.

Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away. Turn, my beloved: be thou like a gazelle or a young hart, Upon the mountains of Bether.

"I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved." I searched for him but I did not find him.

Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.

Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.