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And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;

Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

And 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.

And 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.

The 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;

And 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.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.