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 <div class="label">8</div><div class="s2">Mordecai Honoured</div><div class="p"> 1On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her. 2And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.</div><div class="p"> 3And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. 4Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king, 5and said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces: 6for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? 7Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews. 8Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.</div><div class="p"> 9Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language. 10And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: 11wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey, 12upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. 13The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. 14So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.</div><div class="p"> 15And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. 16The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour. 17And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.</div>
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 <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"> 1Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) 2the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people. 3And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them. 4For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater. 5Thus 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. 6And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. 7And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 8and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, 9and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, 10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.</div><div class="p"> 11On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king. 12And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done. 13Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. 14And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. 15For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand. 16But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey, 17on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 18But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.</div><div class="s2">The Feast of Purim</div><div class="p"> 20And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, 21to stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, 22as the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. 23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; 24because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; 25but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.</div><div class="p"> 26Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, 27the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year; 28and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.</div><div class="p"> 29Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. 30And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, 31to confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. 32And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.</div>
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 <div class="label">149</div><div class="q1"> 1Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song,</div><div class="q2"> And his praise in the congregation of saints.</div><div class="q1"> 2Let Israel rejoice in him that made him:</div><div class="q2">Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.</div><div class="q1"> 3Let them praise his name in the dance:</div><div class="q2">Let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.</div><div class="q1"> 4For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people:</div><div class="q2">He will beautify the meek with salvation.</div><div class="q1"> 5Let the saints be joyful in glory:</div><div class="q2">Let them sing aloud upon their beds.</div><div class="q1"> 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,</div><div class="q2">And a twoedged sword in their hand;</div><div class="q1"> 7To execute vengeance upon the heathen,</div><div class="q2"> And punishments upon the people;</div><div class="q1"> 8To bind their kings with chains,</div><div class="q2">And their nobles with fetters of iron;</div><div class="q1"> 9To execute upon them the judgment written:</div><div class="q2">This honour have all his saints.</div><div class="qr">Praise ye the LORD.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">30</div><div class="s1">Words of Agur</div><div class="p"> 1The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">The man spake unto Ithiel,</div><div class="q2">even unto Ithiel and Ucal,</div><div class="q1"> 2Surely I am more brutish than any man,</div><div class="q2">And have not the understanding of a man.</div><div class="q1"> 3I neither learned wisdom,</div><div class="q2">Nor have the knowledge of the holy.</div><div class="q1"> 4Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?</div><div class="q2">Who hath gathered the wind in his fists?</div><div class="q1">Who hath bound the waters in a garment?</div><div class="q2">Who hath established all the ends of the earth?</div><div class="q1">What is his name, and what is his son's name,</div><div class="q2">If thou canst tell?</div><div class="q1"> 5Every word of God is pure:</div><div class="q2">He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.</div><div class="q1"> 6Add thou not unto his words,</div><div class="q2">Lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7Two things have I required of thee;</div><div class="q2">Deny me them not before I die:</div><div class="q1"> 8Remove far from me vanity and lies:</div><div class="q2">Give me neither poverty nor riches;</div><div class="q2">Feed me with food convenient for me:</div><div class="q1"> 9Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say,</div><div class="q2">Who is the LORD?</div><div class="q1">Or lest I be poor, and steal,</div><div class="q2">And take the name of my God in vain.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10Accuse not a servant unto his master,</div><div class="q2">Lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11 There is a generation that curseth their father,</div><div class="q2">And doth not bless their mother.</div><div class="q1"> 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,</div><div class="q2">And yet is not washed from their filthiness.</div><div class="q1"> 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes!</div><div class="q2">And their eyelids are lifted up.</div><div class="q1"> 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives,</div><div class="q2">To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.</div><div class="q2">There are three things that are never satisfied,</div><div class="q1"> Yea, four things say not,</div><div class="q2"> It is enough:</div><div class="q1"> 16The grave; and the barren womb;</div><div class="q2">The earth that is not filled with water;</div><div class="q2">And the fire that saith not, It is enough.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17The eye that mocketh at his father,</div><div class="q2">And despiseth to obey his mother,</div><div class="q1">The ravens of the valley shall pick it out,</div><div class="q2">And the young eagles shall eat it.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 18There be three things which are too wonderful for me,</div><div class="q2">Yea, four which I know not:</div><div class="q1"> 19The way of an eagle in the air;</div><div class="q2">The way of a serpent upon a rock;</div><div class="q1">The way of a ship in the midst of the sea;</div><div class="q2">And the way of a man with a maid.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 20Such is the way of an adulterous woman;</div><div class="q2">She eateth, and wipeth her mouth,</div><div class="q2">And saith, I have done no wickedness.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 21For three things the earth is disquieted,</div><div class="q2">And for four which it cannot bear:</div><div class="q1"> 22For a servant when he reigneth;</div><div class="q2">And a fool when he is filled with meat;</div><div class="q1"> 23For an odious woman when she is married;</div><div class="q2">And an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 24There be four things which are little upon the earth,</div><div class="q2">But they are exceeding wise:</div><div class="q1"> 25The ants are a people not strong,</div><div class="q2">Yet they prepare their meat in the summer;</div><div class="q1"> 26The conies are but a feeble folk,</div><div class="q2">Yet make they their houses in the rocks;</div><div class="q1"> 27The locusts have no king,</div><div class="q2">Yet go they forth all of them by bands;</div><div class="q1"> 28The spider taketh hold with her hands,</div><div class="q2">And is in kings' palaces.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 29There be three things which go well,</div><div class="q2">Yea, four are comely in going:</div><div class="q1"> 30A lion which is strongest among beasts,</div><div class="q2">And turneth not away for any;</div><div class="q1"> 31An greyhound; an he goat also;</div><div class="q2">And a king, against whom there is no rising up.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 32If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself,</div><div class="q2">Or if thou hast thought evil,</div><div class="q2"> Lay thine hand upon thy mouth.</div><div class="q1"> 33Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter,</div><div class="q2">And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood:</div><div class="q2">So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">21</div><div class="s2">A New Heaven and Earth</div><div class="p"> 1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.</div><div class="p"> 9And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. 10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13on the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. 18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 19And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. 25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 26And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.</div>
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