and who were close to him [as advisors]: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had access to the king and were ranked highest in the kingdom.

And the king's young men will say, those serving him, They shall seek for the king, maidens, virgins good of appearance:

Who had been taken away from Jerusalem among those who had been made prisoner with Jeconiah, king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken him away.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

The king replied to Haman, "Keep your money, and do with those people whatever you wish."

All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:

In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

And in the twelfth month -- it is the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --

the Jews have been assembled in their cities, in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to put forth a hand on those seeking their evil, and no man hath stood in their presence, for their fear hath fallen on all the peoples.

And all heads of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the governors, and those doing the work that the king hath, are lifting up the Jews, for a fear of Mordecai hath fallen upon them;

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.

And the rest of the Jews, who are in the provinces of the king, have been assembled, even to stand for their life, and to rest from their enemies, and to slay among those hating them five and seventy thousand, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand;

This is why the Jews who are in the rural country -- those who live in rural cities -- set aside the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a holiday for happiness, banqueting, holiday, and sending gifts to one another.

because during those days the Jews got rid of their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and the poor.

the Jews have established and received upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all those joined unto them, and it doth not pass away, to be keeping these two days according to their writing, and according to their season, in every year and year;

And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every division of the kingdom and every town, that there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews, or when the memory of them would go from the minds of their seed.

“Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan.

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

To those who are happy beyond measure when they reach their graves?

A word from you has supported those who have stumbled, and has strengthened faltering knees.

“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished?
Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?

“As I have seen, those who plow wickedness
And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

Therefore there is hope for those who are poor, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Surely God won't reject those who are blameless or hold hands with those who practice evil.

Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man,

For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.

A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

"With God are strength and sound wisdom; both the deceived and those who deceive are responsible to him.

He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

“He deprives the trusted ones of speech
And takes away the discernment and discretion of the aged.

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

Both [the] gray-haired and [the] old [are] among us-- {those older than your father}.

for [the] company of [the] godless [is] barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

[Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.

Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God."

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

“Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, shall have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!

Yet he perishes forever like his own refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places; a fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken.

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?

The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.
Everyone follows behind him,
and those who go before him are without number.

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Those saying to God, 'Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

‘Surely our adversaries are cut off and destroyed,
And fire has consumed their abundance.’

For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

"What a help you are to the weak! How powerfully you deliver those without strength!

How have you advised those not wise, or fully declared wise plans?

Before whom hast thou spoken those words? Who made the breath to come out of the mouth?

"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

Those who were about to die blessed me, and I made widows sing for joy.

I was a father to the needy; I diligently inquired into the case of those I didn't know.

I directed their course and presided as chief.
I lived as a king among his troops,
like one who comforts those who mourn.

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"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.

“Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

“Therefore my lyre (harp) is used for [the sound of] mourning,
And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.

if not calamity that is due the unjust, and misfortune that is due those who practice iniquity?

"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?

but when he saw that there had been no response from those three, he got even more angry.

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

traffics in those who practice evil, and walks with wicked people?