yea, this day do princesses of Persia and Media, who have heard the word of the queen, say so to all heads of the king, even according to the sufficiency of contempt and wrath.

During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

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

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.

the king said unto Esther on the second day, when he had drunken wine, "What is thy petition queen Esther, that it may be given thee? And what requirest thou? Yea, ask even half of the empire, and it shall be done."

And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, 'Who is he -- this one? and where is this one? -- he whose heart hath filled him to do so?'

Then said Harbonah - one of the eunuchs before the king - Yea lo! the gallows that Haman made ready for Mordecai, who had spoken well for the king, is standing in Haman's house, of a height of fifty cubits. Then said the king, Hang him thereon.

Yea, in Shusan the palace, did the Jews slay and destroy five hundred men.

to impose on them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth [day], {every year},

The Jews ordained, and took upon themselves, and upon their descendants, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to their appointed time every year;

And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has will he give for his life.

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

They shall be destroyed from morning unto the evening: yea, they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon.

Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men.

Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

Yea, thou shalt know that thy dwelling place shall be in rest: thou shalt behold thy substance, and be no more punished for sin.

Then should I still have comfort; yea, I would exult myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Yea, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

Return, I pray you, let it not be injustice; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

yea, and that none other man's eye shall see me anymore.

They shall show thee, they shall tell thee, yea they will gladly confess the same.

Who does great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

Lo! he cometh upon me, yet can I not see him, Yea he passeth on, yet can I not discern him.

Yea though I be righteous, yet will I not give him one word again, but meekly submit myself to my judge.

For though I be an innocent, and my conscience clear, yea am I weary of my life.

Let him take his rod away from me; yea, let him make me no more afraid of him,

Thou renewest thy witnesses before me, and dost increase thy vexation with me, Relays - yea an army, is with me.

yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."

But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.

For then shall you lift up your face without spot; yea, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig about you, and take your rest in safety.

Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yea, many shall entreat your favor.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knows not such things as these?

"The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.

Yea, with God is wisdom and strength - it is he that hath counsel and foreknowledge.

But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?

Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.

With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.

I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

Are not mockeries with me? Yea, my eye rests on their insults.

And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea , the first-born of death shall devour his members.

Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

Yea, I myself shall behold him - not with other, but with these same eyes, though my reins are consumed within me.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

An eye glimpsed him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not see him again.

though he spares it and will not leave it; yea, keeps it still in his mouth;

It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yea, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;

Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

"But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.

How then do you comfort me in vain? Yea, in your answers remains transgression.

Yea, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver.

Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto +God:

Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.

But He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? Yea, what His soul desires, He does it.

Yea, GOD, hath made timid my heart, and, the Almighty, hath put me in terror.

because I was not cut off before the darkness; yea, He covered the darkness from my face.

The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.

The poor are fain to labour in their oil mills, yea and to tread in their wine presses, and yet to suffer thirst.

Yea he draggeth along the mighty by his strength, He riseth up, and none hath assurance of life;

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Behold even to the moon, and it shines not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

Corals and crystal are no more remembered; yea, the acquisition of wisdom is above rubies.

The Topaz that cometh out of Ethiopia may in no wise be likened unto her: yea, no manner of apparel how pleasant and fair soever it be.

Yea, it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and hidden from the birds of the heavens.

To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:

To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

Yea, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom vigor has perished?

Their dwelling was beside foul brooks, yea in the caves and dens of the earth.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.

Meekly and lowly came I in, yea and without any displeasure; I stood up in the congregation, and communed with them.

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

yea, a fire that utterly should consume, and root out all my substance.

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?