Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

So they proclaimed and circulated a proclamation in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills, and bring olive branches and wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches and branches of other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light for them the way
In which they were to go.

You, in Your great compassion,
Did not forsake them in the wilderness;
The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.

Now when the turn of each young lady came to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their beautification were completed as follows: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and the cosmetics for women—

the young lady would go in to the king in this way: anything that she desired was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

In the evening she would go in and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not again go in to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her as his daughter, came to go in to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs, whom the king had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.

He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict which had been issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show Esther and inform her, and to order her to go in to the king to implore his favor and to plead with him for her people.

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

“The paths of their course wind along,
They go up into nothing and perish.

“For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him,
That we may go to court together.

Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

“Shall a multitude of words go unanswered,
And a talkative man be acquitted?

That you should turn your spirit against God
And allow such words to go out of your mouth?

“He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

“Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”

Though he desires it and will not let it go,
But holds it in his mouth,

“His ox mates without fail;
His cow calves and does not abort.

“They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

“The clods of the valley will gently cover him;
Moreover, all men will follow after him,
While countless ones go before him.

“Behold, I go forward but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness
They go forth seeking food in their activity,
As bread for their children in the desert.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

“I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.
My heart does not reproach any of my days.

“I go about mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

Because I feared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?

“For He does not need to consider a man further,
That he should go before God in judgment.

“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

“Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

I do not sit with deceitful men,
Nor will I go with pretenders.

I shall wash my hands in innocence,
And I will go about Your altar, O Lord,

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go mourning all day long.

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.

Walk about Zion and go around her;
Count her towers;

Consider her ramparts;
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell it to the next generation.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They will never see the light.

Day and night they go around her upon her walls,
And iniquity and mischief are in her midst.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.

They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.

Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

But those who seek my life to destroy it,
Will go into the depths of the earth.

They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

You have removed my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them;
I am shut up and cannot go out.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before You.

He led them also by a straight way,
To go to an inhabited city.

Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;

Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor do any who go down into silence;

A Song of Ascents, of David.
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord—
An ordinance for Israel—
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

Let us go into His dwelling place;
Let us worship at His footstool.

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

None who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the paths of life.

Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back,
And tomorrow I will give it,”
When you have it with you.

Take hold of instruction; do not let go.
Guard her, for she is your life.

Her feet go down to death,
Her steps take hold of Sheol.

Keep your way far from her
And do not go near the door of her house,

And strangers will be filled with your strength
And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;

He will die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.

Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;
Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor.

Go to the ant, O sluggard,
Observe her ways and be wise,

So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.

Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished,
But the descendants of the righteous will be delivered.

Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

A scoffer does not love one who reproves him,
He will not go to the wise.

He who mocks the poor taunts his Maker;
He who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will not escape.

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will perish.

He who curses his father or his mother,
His lamp will go out in time of darkness.

The prudent sees the evil and hides himself,
But the naive go on, and are punished for it.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out,
Even strife and dishonor will cease.

Do not associate with a man given to anger;
Or go with a hot-tempered man,

Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.

Do not go out hastily to argue your case;
Otherwise, what will you do in the end,
When your neighbor humiliates you?

The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.