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Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

And 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:

Write 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.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.